Lamentations 5:8
Avadim have ruled over us; 1 there is none that doth deliver us out of their yad. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
In Context
7Avoteinu have sinned, and are no more; 1 and we have borne their iniquities. 1
9We get our lechem with the peril of our lives 1 because of the cherev of the midbar. 1
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said, 1 Arur (cursed) be Kena'an; 1 an eved of avadim shall he be unto his achim.
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanvalat the Choroni, and Toviyah the eved (official), the Ammoni, and Geshem the Arab, heard it, they laughed at us in mockery, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? Against HaMelech will you be moredim (ones rebelling)?
Job 5:4His banim are far from yesha (safety, salvation), 1 and they are crushed in the sha'ar (gate, before the public), 1 neither is there any to deliver them. 1
Psalms 7:2Hashem Elohai, in Thee do I seek refuge; 1 hoshieini (save me) from all them that persecute me, and deliver me; 1
Proverbs 30:22For an eved (slave) when he reigneth; 1 and a naval (fool) when he is full with lechem; 1
Hosea 2:10For she did not have da'as that I gave her 1 dagan (grain), and tirosh (new wine), and yitzhar (oil), 1 and multiplied her kesef and zahav, 1 which they prepared for Ba'al. 1
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 →