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The Book of Lamentations, Chapter 5, Verse 8

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Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.
King James Version
Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.
American Standard Version
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
New English Translation
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
World English Bible
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
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We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
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For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.