Lamentations 5:8

Lamentations 5:8

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6 ^aWe have given our hand ^bto the Egyptians
And the ^cAssyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 ^aOur fathers sinned and are no more,
But we bear their iniquities.

8 Servants rule over us;
There is none to deliver us from their hand.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives,
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin is hot as an oven,
Because of the fever of famine.

11 They ^aravished the women in Zion,
The maidens in the cities of Judah.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Servants . . . ruled . . . us—Servants under the Chaldean governors ruled the Jews (Nehemiah 5:15). Israel, once a "kingdom of priests" (Exodus 19:6), is become like Canaan, "a servant of servants," according to the curse (Genesis 9:25). The Chaldeans were designed to be "servants" of Shem, being descended from Ham (Genesis 9:26). Now through the Jews' sin, their positions are reversed.

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