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 Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities. Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand. 9We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness. 10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

Lamentations 5:8 word by word

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• ruleמָשַׁלmâshal · to ruleH4910
• handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8

• Genesis 9:25And he said, Cursed be Canaan; Let him be a bondman of bondmen to his brethren.
• Deuteronomy 28:43The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.
• Nehemiah 2:19And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobijah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it; and they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing which ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
• Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors that were before me had been chargeable to the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver: even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not so, because of the fear of God.
• Proverbs 30:22Under a servant when he reigneth, and a churl when he is filled with meat;
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
• Job 10:7Since thou knowest that I am not wicked, and that there is none that delivereth out of thy hand?
• Psalms 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, crushing it while there is no deliverer.
• Psalms 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.
• Isaiah 43:13Yea, since the day was, I [am] HE, and there is none that delivereth out of my hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?
• Hosea 2:10And now will I discover her impiety 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, and behold, I will deliver men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and I will not deliver out of 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