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Lamentations 5:8

World English Bible

Servants rule over us.
There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

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Lamentations 5:8 in other translations

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

Lamentations 5:8 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:8 in context

  1. 6We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
    and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
  2. 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
    We have borne their iniquities.
  3. 8Servants rule over us.
    There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
  4. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
    because of the sword of the wilderness.
  5. 10Our skin is black like an oven,
    because of the burning heat of famine.