“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”

Lamentations 5:8 (KJV) |

Lamentations 5:8

From Lamentations 5, in the Book of Lamentations (Old Testament).

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6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

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