Lamentations 5:8
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
Catholic Public Domain 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 have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
9We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants will he be to his brothers.”
Nehemiah 2:19But Sanballat, a Horonite, and the servant Tobiah, an Ammonite, and Geshem, an Arab, heard of it. And they ridiculed and disparaged us, and they said: “What is this thing that you are doing? Could you be rebelling against the king?”
Job 5:4His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.
Psalms 7:2O Lord, my God, in you I have hoped. Save me from all those who persecute me, and free me:
Proverbs 30:22by a slave when he reigns, by the foolish when he has been filled with food,
Hosea 2:10And now, I will reveal her foolishness by the eyes of her lovers, and no man will rescue her from 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 →