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Lamentations 5:8
8Slaves rule over us. There is no one to deliver us from their hand.
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 held out our hand to Egypt and Assyria to be satisfied with bread. 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. Slaves rule over us. There is no one to deliver us from their hand. 9We get our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the desert. 10Our skin is hot as an oven due to fever from famine.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:8 word by word
עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:8
- Genesis 9:25So he said, “Cursed is Canaan: the lowest slave will he be to his brothers.”
- Deuteronomy 28:43“The outsider who is in your midst will rise up higher and higher above you, and you will go down 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. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
- Nehemiah 5:15The earlier governors, those preceding me, placed heavy burdens on the people, and took bread and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their attendants also lorded over the people. But I did not do so, out of fear of God.
- Proverbs 30:22under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is stuffed with food,
- Job 5:4His sons are far from safety, and crushed at the gate without a deliverer!
- Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, yet there is no one to deliver from Your hand?
- Psalms 7:2Adonai my God, in You I have taken refuge. Save me from each of my persecutors, and deliver me.
- Psalms 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God. Or else I will tear you in pieces with no one to rescue you.
- Isaiah 43:13From eternity, I am He. None can deliver from My hand. I act, and who can reverse it?”
- Hosea 2:10But she did not realize that I Myself gave her the grain, the wine and the fresh oil. I lavished on her silver, also gold— which they made into Baal.
- Zechariah 11:6I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—it is a declaration of Adonai. “Behold, I will hand everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate 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
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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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