8Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.


In Context

5 Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment.

8 Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

Lamentations 5:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants rule over us: there is none to deliver us out of their hand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.