New American Standard Bible 2020
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 submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. 7Our fathers sinned, and are gone; It is we who have been burdened with the punishment for their wrongdoings. Slaves rule over us; There is no one to rescue us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives Because of the sword in the wilderness. 10Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the ravages of hunger.
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עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8
- Genesis 9:25So he said, “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brothers.”
- Deuteronomy 28:43The stranger who is 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 despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- Nehemiah 5:15But the previous governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of my fear of God.
- Proverbs 30:22Under a slave when he becomes king, And a fool when he is satisfied with food,
- Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, They are also oppressed at the gate, And there is no one to save them.
- Job 10:7According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand.
- Psalms 7:2Or he will tear my soul 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 save 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 reverse it?”
- Hosea 2:10So now I will uncover her lewdness Before the eyes of her lovers, And no one will rescue her from My hand.
- Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer have compassion for the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will let the people fall, each into another’s power and into the power of his king; and they will crush the land, and I will not rescue them from their power.”
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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