Lamentations 5:8
Good News Translation
Our rulers are no better than slaves, and no one can save us from their power.

New Revised Standard Version
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hand.

Contemporary English Version
Slaves are now our rulers, and there is no one to set us free.

New American Bible
Servants rule over us, with no one to tear us from their hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.

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Genesis 9:25 He said: Cursed be Chanaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

Deuteronomy 28:43 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower.

Nehemiah 2:19 But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?

Nehemiah 5:15 But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Proverbs 30:22 By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

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Job 5:4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Job 10:7 And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?

Psalm 7:2 Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Psalm 50:22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.

Isaiah 43:13 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?

Hosea 2:10 And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man shall deliver her out of my hand:

Zechariah 11:6 And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand.

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities. 8Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.

Psalm 7:2
Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Zechariah 11:6
And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:7
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