New English Translation
Lamentations 5:8
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
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 in order to buy food to eat. 7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment. Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power. 9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside. 10Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
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עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8
- Genesis 9:25So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”
- Deuteronomy 28:43The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
- Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
- Proverbs 30:22under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,
- Job 5:4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
- Job 10:7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
- Psalms 7:2Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
- Psalms 50:22Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.
- Isaiah 43:13From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
- Hosea 2:10Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
- Zechariah 11:6Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from 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
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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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