Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
Noyes Bible
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; they are no more, And we bear their iniquities.
9With the peril of our lives we get our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Job 5:4His children are far from safety; They are oppressed at the gate, and there is none to deliver them.
Psalms 7:2Lest mine enemy tear me like a lion; Lest he rend me in pieces, while there is none to help.
Proverbs 30:22Under a servant when he becometh a king, And a fool when he is filled with bread;
Hosea 2:10And now will I reveal her shame before the eyes 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 →