Lamentations 5:8
Seruants haue ruled ouer vs, none would deliuer vs out of their hands.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 haue sinned, and are not, and we haue borne their iniquities.
9Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And said, Cursed be Canaan: a seruant of seruants shall he be vnto his brethren.
Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the seruant an Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they mocked vs and despised vs, and said, What a thing is this that ye doe? Will ye rebell against the King?
Job 5:4His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.
Psalms 7:2Least he deuoure my soule like a lion, and teare it in pieces, while there is none to helpe.
Proverbs 30:22For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when he is filled with meate,
Hosea 2:10And now will I discouer her lewdnes in the sight of her louers, and no man shall deliuer her out of mine 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 →