Lamentations 5:8
6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
- KJV
- Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
- WEB
- Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
- ASV
- Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
- DARBY
- Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
- BLB
- Servants rule over us; [there is] no one tearing us away from their hand.
- ÅB
- Slaver hersker over oss; ingen river oss ut av deres hånd.
- OTB
- Tjenere hersker over oss; det er ingen som kan befri oss fra deres grep.
- B1930
- Træler hersker over oss; ingen river oss ut av deres hånd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 5:15
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.
Read in contextZechariah 11:6
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.”
Read in contextProverbs 30:22
a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
Read in contextPsalms 7:2
or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Read in contextHosea 2:10
And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
Read in contextPsalms 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Read in contextJob 10:7
though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Read in contextNehemiah 2:19
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?”
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