Lamentations 5:8
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Bible in Basic English
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 were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
9We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.
Nehemiah 2:19But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?
Job 5:4Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
Psalms 7:2\7:1\O Lord my God, I put my faith in you; take me out of the hands of him who is cruel to me, and make me free;
Proverbs 30:22A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;
Hosea 2:10And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take 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 →