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 to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities. Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness. 10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

Lamentations 5:8 word by word

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Servantsעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
• ruleמָשַׁלmâshal · to ruleH4910
• handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8

• Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
• Deuteronomy 28:43The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
• Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
• Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
• Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
• Job 10:7Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
• Psalms 7:2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
• Psalms 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
• Isaiah 43:13Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
• Hosea 2:10And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
• Zechariah 11:6For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

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