Lamentations
King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:8
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:8 Context
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. 9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Other Translations
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
- Basic English Bible
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
- Darby Bible
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
- Webster's Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- World English Bible
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
- Basic English Bible
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
- Darby Bible
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
- Webster's Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- World English Bible
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Lamentations 5:8
5:6 We - The ten tribes were all carried captives into Assyria, and many of the kingdom of Judah fled into Egypt. Giving the hand may signify labouring for them: or, yielding up themselves to their power.
5:7 Their iniquities - The punishment of them.
5:9 The sword - The enemies lay encamped in all the plains, so that they could stir out no way but the sword of the Chaldeans was upon them.