Lamentations 5:8
Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.
Darby Translation
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] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.
9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.
Nehemiah 2:19And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
Proverbs 30:22Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
Hosea 2:10And now will I discover her impiety 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 →