Lamentations 5:8

Lamentations 5:8 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
• New International Version (NIV)Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.

Context of Lamentations 5:8

6We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; It is we who have carried their sin. Servants rule over us; There is no one to rescue us out of their hand. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword [of the Arabs] in the wilderness [who may attack if we go out to harvest the crop]. 10Our skin is as hot as [the heat of] an oven Because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

Lamentations 5:8 word by word

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Servantsעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
• have ruledמָשַׁלmâshal · to ruleH4910
• none that doth deliverפָּרַקpâraq · to tearH6561
• out of their handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8

• Genesis 9:25So he said, “Cursed be Canaan [the son of Ham]; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.”
• Deuteronomy 28:43The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.
• Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked us and regarded us with contempt and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
• Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who were [in office] before me put heavy burdens on the people and took food and wine from them in addition to forty shekels of silver [as an excessive monthly salary]; even their servants assumed authority over the people. But I did not do so because of the [reverent] fear of God.
• Proverbs 30:22Under a servant when he reigns, Under a [spiritually blind] fool when he is filled with food,
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety [and included in their father’s ruin], They are oppressed and crushed in the [court of justice in the city’s] gate, And there is no one to rescue them.
• Job 10:7Although You know that I am not guilty or wicked, Yet there is no one who can rescue me from Your hand.
• Psalms 7:2So that my enemy will not tear me like a lion, Dragging me away while there is no one to rescue [me].
• Psalms 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to rescue [you].
• Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, And there is no one who can rescue from My hand; I act, and who can revoke or reverse it?”
• Hosea 2:10And now I will uncover her lewdness and shame In the sight of her lovers, And no one will rescue her from My hand.
• Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into the hand of another and into the hands of his [foreign] king. And the enemy will strike the land, and I will not rescue the people from their hand.”

Commentaries on Lamentations 5:8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Servants have ruled over us - To be subject to such is the most painful and dishonorable bondage: - Quio domini faciant, audent cum talia fures? Virg. Ecl. 3:16. "Since slaves so insolent are grown, What may not masters do?" Perhaps he here alludes to the Chaldean soldiers, whose will the wretched Jews were obliged to obey.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Servants - i. e. Slaves. A terrible degradation to a high-spirited Jew.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Servants ... ruled ... us--Servants under the Chaldean governors ruled the Jews (Ne 5:15). Israel, once a "kingdom of priests" (Ex 19:6), is become like Canaan, "a servant of servants," according to the curse (Ge 9:25). The Chaldeans were designed to be "servants" of Shem, being descended from Ham (Ge 9:26). Now through the Jews' sin, their positions are reversed.Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 5:8

• Patriotism
• Servant

In the dictionaries

• Crown
• Persecution
• Acrostic
• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew

Commentaries on Lamentations 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings