Lamentations 5:8
Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 not, and, we, their iniquities, have borne.
9At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25And he said, Accursed be Canaan,—a servant of servants, shall he be to his brethren!
Nehemiah 2:19But, when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed at us, and poured contempt upon us,—and said, What is this thing which ye would do? against the king, would ye rebel?
Job 5:4His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
Psalms 7:2Lest one tear, as a lion, my soul,—and there be no deliverer to rescue.
Proverbs 30:22Under a servant, when he reigneth, and a base man, when he is surfeited with food;
Hosea 2:10Now, therefore, will I expose her unseemliness, before the eyes of her lovers,—and no, man, 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 →