Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:8
A church father on this verse
“The people's slavery is also exaggerated by the conditions of those enslaving, or dominating. As Verse 8 says: "Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand." Namely, just as the Moabites and the Idumaeans, and other neighbors, by whom they were first dominated. As Proverbs reminds us: "Under three…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8Servants have ruled over us: There is none to ransom us out of their hand.
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6Egypt gave the hand to us, Assyria to their own satisfaction.
7Our fathers sinned, and are not: We have borne their iniquities.
— Lamentations 5:8 —
9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin is blackened like an oven; They are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.