Lamentations 5:8
Servants have ruled over us, A deliverer there is none from their hand.
Young's Literal Translation
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 have sinned — they are not, We their iniquities have borne.
9With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Cross References
Genesis 9:25and saith: 'Cursed [is] Canaan, Servant of servants he is to his brethren.'
Nehemiah 2:19And Sanballat the Horonite heareth, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, and they mock at us, and despise us, and say, 'What [is] this thing that ye are doing? against the king are ye rebelling?'
Job 5:4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Psalms 7:2Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.
Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
Hosea 2:10And now do I reveal her dishonour before the eyes of her lovers, And none doth 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 →