⁸ Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.

⁶ For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.'

¹⁵ the former governors who `are' before me have made themselves heavy on the people, and take of them in bread and wine, besides in silver forty shekels; also, their servants have ruled over the people -- and I have not done so, because of the fear of God.

²² For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

² Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

¹⁰ And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth deliver her out of My hand.

¹³ Even from the day I `am' He, And there is no deliverer from My hand, I work, and who doth turn it back?

²² Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

⁷ For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

¹⁹ And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, `What `is' this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'

⁴³ the sojourner who `is' in thy midst goeth up above thee very high, and thou goest down very low;

²⁵ and saith: `Cursed `is' Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'