Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
New American Standard Bible
There is
King James Version
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Holman Bible
no one rescues us from their hands.
International Standard Version
Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
A Conservative Version
Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
American Standard Version
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Amplified
Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.
Bible in Basic English
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Darby Translation
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Julia Smith Translation
Servants ruled over us: none delivering from their hand.
King James 2000
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.
Modern King James verseion
Servants rule over us; there is no rescuer out of their hand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Servants have the rule of us, and no man delivereth us out of their hands.
New Heart English Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
The Emphasized Bible
Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
Webster
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
World English Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
Youngs Literal Translation
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
7 Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. 8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. 9 At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
Zechariah 11:6
Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land," says the Lord, "but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them."
Psalm 7:2
Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
Proverbs 30:22
under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,
Genesis 9:25
So he said, "Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers."
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
Job 10:7
although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
Psalm 50:22
Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.
Isaiah 43:13
From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?"
Hosea 2:10
Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!