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 case Deuteronomy 28:48 applies), or ex-Israelite servants promoted to positions of authority by the Babylonians. But either way the people clearly felt the ignominy of it. They were not being ruled by their Israelite peers. And because YHWH was no longer on their side there was no one to deliver them from them. Jeremiah had once asked, ‘Is Israel a servant? Is he a homeborn slave?' (Jeremiah 2:14). And the answer now was ‘yes'.