8 Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
8 Slaves rule over us; there's no escape from their grip.
8 Servants rule over us; There is none to deliver us from their hand.
8 Slaves have now become our masters; there is no one left to rescue us.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Lamentations 5:8
Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16
(Read Lamentations 5:1-16)
Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly. Though our sins and God's just displeasure cause our sufferings, we may hope in his pardoning mercy, his sanctifying grace, and his kind providence. But the sins of a man's whole life will be punished with vengeance at last, unless he obtains an interest in Him who bare our sins in his own body on the tree.