Lamentations 5:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 5:15 : 15 the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.'
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Even from the day I `am' He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 and saith: `Cursed `is' Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 the sojourner who `is' in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

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  • Neh 9:34-37
    4 verses
    81%

    34 and our kings, our heads, our priests, and our fathers, have not done Thy law, nor attended unto Thy commands, and to Thy testimonies, that Thou hast testified against them;

    35 and they, in their kingdom, and in Thine abundant goodness, that Thou hast given to them, and in the land, the large and the fat, that Thou hast set before them, have not served Thee, nor turned back from their evil doings.

    36 `Lo, we -- to-day -- `are' servants, and the land that Thou hast given to our fathers, to eat its fruit and its good -- lo, we `are' servants on it,

    37 and its increase it is multiplying to the kings whom Thou hast set over us in our sins; and over our bodies they are ruling, and over our cattle, according to their pleasure, and we `are' in great distress.

  • Lam 5:2-7
    6 verses
    80%

    2 Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.

    3 Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.

    4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

    5 For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

    6 `To' Egypt we have given a hand, `To' Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

    7 Our fathers have sinned -- they are not, We their iniquities have borne.

  • Neh 5:4-5
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    4 And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards;

    5 and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'

  • 9 With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • 7 `From the days of our fathers we `are' in great guilt unto this day, and in our iniquities we have been given -- we, our kings, our priests -- into the hand of the kings of the lands, with sword, with captivity, and with spoiling, and with shame of face, as `at' this day.

  • Dan 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 And Jehovah doth watch for the evil, and bringeth it upon us, for righteous `is' Jehovah our God concerning all His works that He hath done, and we have not hearkened to His voice.

    15 And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought forth Thy people from the land of Egypt by a strong hand, and dost make for Thee a name as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 While we exist -- consumed are our eyes for our vain help, In our watch-tower we have watched for a nation `that' saveth not.

    18 They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

  • 42 And their enemies oppress them, And they are humbled under their hand.

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    73%

    5 we have sinned, and done perversely, and done wickedly, and rebelled, to turn aside from Thy commands, and from Thy judgments:

    6 and we have not hearkened unto Thy servants, the prophets, who have spoken in Thy name unto our kings, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • 12 My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

  • 3 For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

  • Deut 26:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6 and the Egyptians do us evil, and afflict us, and put on us hard service;

    7 and we cry unto Jehovah, God of our fathers, and Jehovah heareth our voice, and seeth our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression;

  • 15 that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

  • 4 Who said, `By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips `are' our own; who `is' lord over us?'

  • 7 The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant `is' the borrower to the lender.

  • 9 And lo, fallen have our fathers by the sword, and our sons, and our daughters, and our wives `are' in captivity for this.

  • 20 We have known, O Jehovah, our wickedness, The iniquity of our fathers, For we have sinned against Thee.

  • 16 Straw is not given to thy servants, and they are saying to us, Make bricks, and lo, thy servants are smitten -- and thy people hath sinned.'

  • 13 O Jehovah our God, lords have ruled us besides Thee, Only, by Thee we make mention of Thy name.

  • 10 and have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah our God, to walk in His laws, that He hath set before us by the hand of His servants the prophets;

  • 13 `And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this),

  • 8 `O Lord, to us `is' the shame of face, to our kings, to our heads, and to our fathers, in that we have sinned against Thee.

  • Ps 123:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Lo, as eyes of men-servants `Are' unto the hand of their masters, As eyes of a maid-servant `Are' unto the hand of her mistress, So `are' our eyes unto Jehovah our God, Till that He doth favour us.

    3 Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt,

  • 19 We have been from of old, Thou hast not ruled over them, Not called is Thy name upon them!

  • 8 Wo to us, who doth deliver us out of the hand of these honourable gods? these `are' the gods who are smiting the Egyptians with every plague in the wilderness.

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    3 `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.'

  • 19 Small and great `are' there the same. And a servant `is' free from his lord.

  • 45 Offscouring and refuse Thou dost make us In the midst of the peoples.

  • 27 and Thou givest them into the hand of their adversaries, and they distress them, and in the time of their distress they cry unto Thee, and Thou, from the heavens, dost hear, and, according to Thine abundant mercies, dost give to them saviours, and they save them out of the hand of their adversaries.

  • 14 Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.

  • 22 And this `is' a people seized and spoiled, Snared in holes -- all of them, And in houses of restraint they were hidden, They have been for a prey, And there is no deliverer, A spoil, and none is saying, `Restore.'

  • 12 Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

  • 42 We -- we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou -- Thou hast not forgiven.

  • 24 And the shameful thing hath devoured The labour of our fathers from our youth, Their flock and their herd, Their sons and their daughters.

  • 5 And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.