Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us, || There is no deliverer from their hand.
Literal Standard 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 fathers have sinned—they are not, || We have borne their iniquities.
9With our lives we bring in our bread, || Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25and says: “Cursed [is] Canaan, || Servant of servants he is to his brothers.”
Nehemiah 2:19And Sanballat the Horonite hears, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, “What [is] this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, || And they are bruised in the gate, || And there is no deliverer.
Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul as a lion, || Tearing, and there is no deliverer.
Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigns, || And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
Hosea 2:10And now I reveal her dishonor before the eyes of her lovers, || And none 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 →