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Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:8 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
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5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might 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 was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
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