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.
• 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.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.

Context of Lamentations 5:8

6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread. 7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, and we bear their punishment. Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert. 10Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

Lamentations 5:8 word by word

עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Servantsעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
• have ruledמָשַׁלmâshal · to ruleH4910
• none that doth deliverפָּרַקpâraq · to tearH6561
• out of their handיָדyâd · hand: powerH3027

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8

• Genesis 9:25he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.”
• Deuteronomy 28:43The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.
• Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
• Nehemiah 5:15But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that.
• Proverbs 30:22a servant who becomes king, a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,
• Job 5:4His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
• Job 10:7though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
• Psalms 7:2or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
• Psalms 50:22“Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
• Isaiah 43:13Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
• Hosea 2:10So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.
• Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the Lord. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”

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