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Lamentations 5:8
“Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
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Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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