Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom us out of their hand.
Brenton Septuagint
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 sinned, and are not: we have borne their iniquities.
9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be the servant Chanaan, a slave shall he be to his brethren.
Nehemiah 2:19And Sanaballat the Aronite, and Tobia the servant, the Ammonite, and Gesam the Arabian, heard it, and they laughed us to scorn, and came to us, and said, What is this thing that ye are doing? are ye revolting against the king?
Job 5:4Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
Psalms 7:2O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
Hosea 2:10And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal.
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 →