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Lamentations 5:8

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

v.8This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 10:7

    Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

  • Psalms 7:2

    Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Isaiah 43:13

    Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?

  • Genesis 9:25

    And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

  • Nehemiah 2:19

    But 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?

  • Nehemiah 5:15

    But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.