Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 borne their iniquities.
9We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25He said: Cursed be Chaanan, a servant of servants, shall he be unto his brethren.
Nehemiah 2:19But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?
Job 5:4His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
Psalms 7:2O Lord my God, in thee have I put my trust: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
Proverbs 30:22By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when he is filled with meat:
Hosea 2:10And now I will lay open her folly in the eyes of her lovers: and no man 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 →