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Lamentations 5:8

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

KJV

Servi dominati sunt nostri : non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.

Vulgate

δοῦλοι ἐκυρίευσαν ἡμῶν, λυτρούμενος οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν.

LXX

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

ASV

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔/נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִ/יָּדָֽ/ם

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
ךָ
k
noun · 791×
מְפָרֵק֩
mprq
verb · 10×
מוֹשֵׁ֖ל
mvshl
verb · 82×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Jer 5:19 — And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land,
  • Neh 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 peop
  • Prov 30:22 — For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
  • Ps 7:2 — Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Zech 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,