Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control.
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.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
7 Our ancestors sinned and no longer exist yet we continue to bear the consequences of their sin. 8 Slaves rule over us, and no one delivers us from their control. 9 We risk our lives to obtain our food, facing death in the desert.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
Nevertheless, the former governors before me placed a heavy burden on the people. They received food and wine, plus a tax of 40 shekels of silver. Even their young men took advantage of the people, but I never did so because I feared God.
Zechariah 11:6
Therefore I will no longer show compassion upon those who live in the land," declares the LORD. "Look! I will deliver every single person into the control of his neighbor and into the control of the king. Even though they assault the land, I will not deliver it from their control."
Psalm 7:2
Otherwise, they will rip me to shreds like a lion, tearing me apart with no one to rescue me.
Proverbs 30:22
Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed,
Genesis 9:25
he said, "Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest of slaves to his relatives."
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner in your midst will be elevated higher and higher over you, while you are brought low little by little.
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, his servant Tobiah the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they jeered at us and despised us when they said, "What is this thing that you're doing? You're rebelling against the king, aren't you?"
Job 5:4
His children are far from deliverance; they'll be maltreated before they leave home, with no one to rescue them.
Job 10:7
Although you know that I'm not guilty, there's no one to deliver me from you!
Psalm 50:22
Consider this, you who have forgotten God Otherwise, I will tear you in pieces and there will be no deliverer:
Isaiah 43:13
"I am God; also from ancient days I am the one. And there is no one who can deliver out of my hand; when I act, who can reverse it?"
Hosea 2:10
So now I'll reveal her lewdness to the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from my control.