Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us out of their hand.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 get our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said: 'What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?'
Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.
Psalms 7:2(7-3) Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;
Hosea 2:10(2-12) And now will I uncover her shame in the sight of her lovers, and none 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 →