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 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 our hand to the Egyptians And the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, But we bear their iniquities. Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives, Because of the sword in the wilderness. 10Our skin is hot as an oven, Because of the fever of famine.

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 9:25Then he said: “Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren.”
• Deuteronomy 28:43“The alien 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, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they laughed at us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”
• Nehemiah 5:15But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
• Proverbs 30:22For a servant when he reigns, A fool when he is filled with food,
• Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
• Job 10:7Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
• Psalms 7:2Lest they tear me like a lion, Rending me in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
• Psalms 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver:
• Isaiah 43:13Indeed before the day was, I am He; And there is no one who can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?”
• Hosea 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one shall deliver her from My hand.
• Zechariah 11:6For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land,” says the Lord. “But indeed I will give everyone into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. They shall attack the land, and I will not deliver them 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

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