Lamentations 5:8

In 11 translations

BSB

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

KJV

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

WEB

Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

ASV

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

LSV

Servants have ruled over us, || There is no deliverer from their hand.

YLT

Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

DBY

Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

DRC

Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

GNV

Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.

JPS

Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

LXXE

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.

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Original-language editions

WLC

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃

LXX-Br

Δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν, λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not…
• Nehemiah 5:15The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.
• Proverbs 30:22a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
• Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
• Hosea 2:10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
• Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
• Deuteronomy 28:43The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
• Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
• Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
• Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
• Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
• Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

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