Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
Leeser Tanakh
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 no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
9At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, 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 Choronite, and Tobiyah 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 are doing? are ye rebelling against the king?
Job 5:4His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.
Psalms 7:2(7:3) Lest he tear like a lion my soul, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Proverbs 30:22Under a servant when he becometh king, and a worthless fool when he hath eaten enough bread;
Hosea 2:10(2:12) And now will I lay open her disgrace before the eyes of her lovers, and no man 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 →