Lamentations 5:8 · KJV
“Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.”
— Lamentations 5:8
Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Lamentations 5 — Context
We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none that doth deliver {us} out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. {terrible: or, terrors, or, storms}
Cross References
Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
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}. {deliver: Heb. make to be found}
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.
Psalms 7:2
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending {it} in pieces, while {there is} none to deliver. {none...: Heb. not a deliverer}
Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard {it}, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What {is} this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?
Isaiah 43:13
Yea, before the day {was} I {am} he; and {there is} none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it? {let it: Heb. turn it back?}
Deuteronomy 28:43
The stranger that {is} within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear {you} in pieces, and {there be} none to deliver.