Lamentations 5:8

World English Bible (WEB)

"Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. "

About Lamentations

Poetic mourning over Jerusalem's destruction.

Old Testament • Book #25

We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; we have borne their iniquities.

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

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