King James Version
Lamentations 5:8 in the King James Version says “Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
Lamentations 5:8 · KJV
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
KJV Study — Public Domain
“over us there is none that doth deliver”
H6561to break off or crunch; figuratively, to deliver
“us out of their hand”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
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