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Lamentations 5:8

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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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  1. Nehemiah 5:15Rank 1 from verse 8
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    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.

  2. Proverbs 30:22Rank 2 from verse 8
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    22For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

  3. Zechariah 11:6Rank 3 from verse 8
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    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.

  4. Psalms 7:2Rank 4 from verse 8
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    2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  5. Deuteronomy 28:43Rank 5 from verse 8
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    43The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

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Lamentations 5:8

COMBINED MEANING

ruled

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of rule, meaning to govern, lead, direct, control, or exercise authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

us

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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deliver

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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hand

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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5:7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

5:8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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5:9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

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