Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us: 1 There is none to ransom us out of their hand. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 not: 1 We have borne their iniquities. 1
9We shall bring in our bread with danger of our lives, 1 Because of the sword of the wilderness. 1
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said, 1 Cursed be the servant Canaan, 1 A slave shall he be to his brethren.
Job 5:4Let their children be far from safety, 1 And let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. 1
Psalms 7:2O Lord my God, in thee have I trusted: 1 Save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me. 1
Proverbs 30:22if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;
Hosea 2:10And she knew not that I gave her her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied silver to her: but she made silver and gold images for Baal.
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 →