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


In Context

5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

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

9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:8Slaves rule over us, and there is none to free us from their hands.

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 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.