American Standard Version
"Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. "
— Lamentations 5:8, American Standard Version
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
“Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.”
“Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.”
“Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.”
“Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.”
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.