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 submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough food to survive. 7Our ancestors sinned, but they have died— and we are suffering the punishment they deserved! Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us. 9We hunt for food at the risk of our lives, for violence rules the countryside. 10The famine has blackened our skin as though baked in an oven.

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 cursed Canaan, the son of Ham: “May Canaan be cursed! May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives.”
• Deuteronomy 28:43“The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.
• Nehemiah 2:19But when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard of our plan, they scoffed contemptuously. “What are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” they asked.
• Nehemiah 5:15The former governors, in contrast, had laid heavy burdens on the people, demanding a daily ration of food and wine, besides forty pieces of silver. Even their assistants took advantage of the people. But because I feared God, I did not act that way.
• Proverbs 30:22a slave who becomes a king, an overbearing fool who prospers,
• Job 5:4Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
• Job 10:7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands.
• Psalms 7:2If you don’t, they will maul me like a lion, tearing me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
• Psalms 50:22Repent, all of you who forget me, or I will tear you apart, and no one will help you.
• Isaiah 43:13“From eternity to eternity I am God. No one can snatch anyone out of my hand. No one can undo what I have done.”
• Hosea 2:10I will strip her naked in public, while all her lovers look on. No one will be able to rescue her from my hands.
• Zechariah 11:6Likewise, I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” says the Lord. “I will let them fall into each other’s hands and into the hands of their king. They will turn the land into a wilderness, and I will not rescue 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

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