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

Bible Comments

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 domini faciant,

audent cum talia fures?

Virg. Ecclesiastes 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.

Lamentations 5:8

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