Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
In Context
7Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan. He shall be a servant of servants to his brothers.
Nehemiah 2:19But 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?
Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Psalms 7:2lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he is king, and a fool when he is filled with food,
Hosea 2:10And now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →