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Lamentations 5:8

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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

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

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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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.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Nehemiah 5:15

    But 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.

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  • Zechariah 11:6

    For 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.

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  • Proverbs 30:22

    For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

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  • Psalms 7:2

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

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  • Hosea 2:10

    And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

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  • Psalms 50:22

    Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

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  • Job 10:7

    Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

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  • 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?

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