Parallel Verses
Amplified
Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.
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.
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.
NET Bible
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
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 fathers sinned, and are no more;
It is
Servants rule over us;
There is no one to rescue us out of their hand.
We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop].
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were [in office] before me put heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them in addition to forty shekels of silver [as an excessive monthly salary]; even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not do so because of the [reverent] fear of God.
Zechariah 11:6
For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into the hand of another and into the hands of his [foreign] king. And the enemy will strike the land, and I will not rescue the people from their hand.”
Psalm 7:2
So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion,
Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].
Proverbs 30:22
Under a servant when he reigns,
Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,
Genesis 9:25
So he said,
He shall be to his brothers.”
Deuteronomy 28:43
The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked us and regarded us with contempt and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Job 5:4
“His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin],
They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate,
And there is no
Job 10:7
‘Although You know that I am not guilty or wicked,
Yet there is no one who can rescue me from Your hand.
Psalm 50:22
“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to rescue [you].
Isaiah 43:13
“Even from eternity I am He,
And there is no one who can rescue from My hand;
I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”
Hosea 2:10
“And now I will uncover her lewdness and shame
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her from My hand.