Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.
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- Nehemiah 5:15Rank 1 from verse 8
15But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
15But the former gouernours that had bene before me, were chargeable vnto the people, and had taken of them bread, and wine, beside fourtie shekels of siluer, yea euen their seruants bare rule ouer the people: but so did not I, because of the feare of God.
- Proverbs 30:22Rank 2 from verse 8
- Zechariah 11:6Rank 3 from verse 8
6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
6†For I will no more pitie the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but loe, I will deliuer the men euery one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his King, and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliuer them.
- Psalms 7:2Rank 4 from verse 8
- Deuteronomy 28:43Rank 5 from verse 8
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- Hosea 2:10Rank 7 from verse 8
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- Nehemiah 2:19Rank 11 from verse 8
19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the seruant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they laughed vs to scorne, and despised vs, and said, What is this thing that yee doe? will ye rebell against the king?
- Psalms 50:22Rank 12 from verse 8
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Lamentations 5:8
Persons who serve, labour for, obey, or attend another.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of rule, meaning to govern, lead, direct, control, or exercise authority.
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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.
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Third-person singular present form of do: does.
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Sense 1: To rescue, save, free, or bring safely out of danger or bondage. Sense 2: To hand over, give up, or place into another's power or possession. Sense 3: To bring forth, convey, declare, or commit something to another. Sense 4: To give birth or be delivered of a child.
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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.
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7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
7*Our fathers haue sinned and are not, and wee haue borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
8Seruants haue ruled ouer vs: there is none that doeth deliuer vs out of their hand.
Selected passage9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.