English Standard Version
Lamentations 5:8
8Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.
Context of Lamentations 5:8
6We have given the hand to Egypt, and to Assyria, to get bread enough. 7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; and we bear their iniquities. Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness. 10Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.
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עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8
- Genesis 9:25he said, "Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers."
- Deuteronomy 28:43The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"
- Nehemiah 5:15The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
- Proverbs 30:22a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
- Psalms 7:2lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
- Psalms 50:22"Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
- Isaiah 43:13Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?"
- Hosea 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
- Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none 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
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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
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