Lamentations 5:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Lamentations 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Servants - i. e. Slaves. A terrible degradation to a high-spirited Jew.
Lamentations 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
Lamentations 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Another circumstance aggravated the calamity of the people, that they came under the power of servants, which is more degrading than when the rich and the eminent in wealth and power make us th...
Lamentations 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. Servants have ruled over us - To be subject to such is the most painful and dishonorable bondage: - Quio domin...
Lamentations 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. Servants have ruled over us. Servants under the Chaldean governors ruled the Jews ( Nehemiah 5:15 , "Yea eve...
Lamentations 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
Lamentations 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Servants have ruled over us. — The Chaldæans, it would seem, added insult to injury, sending as rulers those who had filled menial offices in the courts of their kings. (Comp. Jeremiah 39:3 .)
Lamentations 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

AN APPEAL FOR GOD'S COMPASSION Lamentations 5:1-10 UNLIKE its predecessors, the fifth and last elegy is not an acrostic. There is little to be gained by a discussion of the various conjectures...
Lamentations 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
Lamentations 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
Lamentations 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Servants have ruled over us ,.... The Targum is, "the sons of Ham, who were given to be servants to the sons of Shem, they have ruled over us;'' referring to the prophecy of Noah, Genesis 9:26 ;...
Lamentations 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand. Ver. 8. Servants have ruled over us. ] And they are usually most insolent, as was Tobiah the servant. Neh 2...
Lamentations 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Our fathers have sinned, and are not Death hath secured our fathers from these evils, though they had sinned; but the punishment they escaped, we suffer in the most grievous degree: see note on Je...
Lamentations 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Lamentations 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Either those who sometimes were our servants, tributary to us, or the posterity of Ham, condemned of old to be servants to our forefather Shem, Genesis 9:26 ; or the servants of those masters whom...
Lamentations 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Servants rule over us, There is none to deliver us out of their hand. It is an open question here whether this means ‘servants' of the king of Babylon, signifying Babylonian officials (in which cas...
Lamentations 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:6 . Judæa was on the verge of famine through the foragings of the invaders, and, under the ominous shadow of starvation, To Egypt we have given the hand, i.e...
Lamentations 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
Lamentations 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us. An appeal for God’s compassion The prayer opens with a striking phrase--“Remember, O Lord,” etc. It cannot be supposed that the elegist conceived of his...
Lamentations 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Lamentations 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
Lamentations 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:43 ; Genesis 9:25 ; Hosea 2:10 ; Isaiah 43:13 ; Job 10:7 ; Job 5:4 ; Nehemiah 2:19 ; Nehemiah 5:15 ; Proverbs 30:22 ; Psalms 50:22 ; Psalms 7:2 ; Zechariah 11:6

Lamentations 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Lamentations 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Lamentations 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lamentations 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Lamentations 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Lamentations 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Lamentations 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lamentations 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lamentations 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Lamentations 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lamentations 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge