Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
World English 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 are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
Job 5:4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Psalms 7:2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food,
Hosea 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will 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 →