Catholic Public Domain Version
"Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand. "
— Lamentations 5:8, Catholic Public Domain 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. ”
“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.”
We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.