THEOSISLamentations 5:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
עֲבָדִים֙ מָ֣שְׁלוּ בָ֔נוּ פֹּרֵ֖ק אֵ֥ין מִיָּדָֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Zech 11:6And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand.
- Neh 5:15But the former governors that had been before me, were chargeable to the people, and took of them in bread, and wine, and in money every day forty sicles: and their officers also oppressed the people. But I did not so for the fear of God.
- Ps 7:2O Lord, my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me.
- Prov 30:22By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:
- Job 10:7And shouldst know that I have done no wicked thing, whereas there is no man that can deliver out of thy hand?
- Isa 43:13And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away?
- Ps 50 (49):22
- Neh 2:19But Sanaballat the Horonite, and Tobias the servant, the Ammonite, and Gossem the Arabian heard of it, and they scoffed at us, and despised us, and said: What is this thing that you do? are you going to rebel against the king?