Lamentations 5:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
Lamentations 5:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 5:8 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 5:8 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 5:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.”
Lamentations 5:8 — World English Bible
Lamentations 5:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.”
Lamentations 5:8 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.”
Lamentations 5:8 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.”
Lamentations 5:8 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 5:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.”
Lamentations 5:8 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 5:8 in Context — Lamentations 5
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.
8 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.
What Does Lamentations 5:8 Mean?
Lamentations 5:8 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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