Lamentations 5:8
Slaves rule over us, 1 and there is no one to deliver us from their hand. 1
Unlocked Literal 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, and they are no more, 1 and we bear their iniquities. 1
9We get our bread only by risking our lives, 1 because of the sword in the wilderness. 1
Cross References
Genesis 9:25So he said, 1 “Cursed be Canaan. 1 May he be a servant to his brothers' servants.”
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us, and they said, “What are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
Job 5:4His children are far from safety; 1 they are crushed in the city gate. 1 There is no one to rescue them. 1
Psalms 7:2Otherwise, they will rip me apart like a lion, 1 tearing me in pieces with no one else able to bring me to safety. 1
Proverbs 30:22a slave when he becomes king; 1 a fool when he is filled with food; 1
Hosea 2:10Then I will strip her naked in the sight of her lovers, 1 and no one will rescue her out of my hand. 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 →