Lamentations 5:8
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
In other translations
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
Hebrew words
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
- Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.The 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.
- Zechariah 11:6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.For 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.”
- Psalm 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?But 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?”
- Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
- Psalm 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
- Isaiah 43:13Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
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