Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
Berean Standard Bible
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 no more, but we bear their punishment.
9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked us and ridiculed us, saying, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
Proverbs 30:22a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
Hosea 2:10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
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 →