Lamentations 5:8
Servants of our conqueror rule over us; no one can save us from their power.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
In Context
7Our forefathers sinned and they're gone, but we're being punished for their sins.
9We take our lives in our hands when we look for food, because of the armed raiders in the desert.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25and said, “May Canaan be cursed! He will be the lowest kind of slave and will serve his brothers!”
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab got to hear about it, they mocked and taunted us, asking, “What are you up to? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Job 5:4His sons are never safe; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
Psalms 7:2Otherwise they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to save me.
Proverbs 30:22a slave becoming a king, a stupid person eating like a pig,
Hosea 2:10I will strip her naked while her lovers watch; no one will be able to rescue her from me.
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 →