Lamentations 5:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.”
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BSBPD
“Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 5:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
- Deuteronomy 28:43The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.
- 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?”
- 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.
- Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
- Proverbs 30:22a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
- Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
- 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.
- 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 deliver it from their hands.”
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