Lamentations 5:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Lamentations 5:8 —

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Cross-References

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Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
Zechariah 11:6
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Isa. any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease. They complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt: “ Remember what has come upon us, Lam. 5:1. What was of ol…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. 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.