Lamentations 5:8
Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.
Bible (Bishops')
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 (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse.
9We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he sayde: cursed be Chanaan, a seruaunt of seruauntes shall he be vnto his brethren.
Proverbs 30:22A seruaunt that beareth rule, a foole that is full fedde,
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 →