Ratapan 5:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Pelayan-pelayan memerintah atas kami; yang melepaskan kami dari tangan mereka tak ada.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Pelayan-pelayan memerintah atas kami; yang melepaskan kami dari tangan mereka tak ada.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Hamba-hambapun memerintahkan kami, maka seorangpun tiada yang menyentak kami dari dalam tangannya.

Contextual Overview

¹ Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion. ² Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts. ³ We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes. ⁴ We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money. ⁵ Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest. ⁶ [Aforetime] we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, [and nowe] to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough. ⁷ Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse. ⁸ Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes. ⁹ We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse. ¹⁰ Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Servants: Genesis 9:25, Deuteronomy 28:43, Nehemiah 2:19, Nehemiah 5:15, Proverbs 30:22

there: Job 5:4, Job 10:7, Psalms 7:2, Psalms 50:22, Isaiah 43:13, Hosea 2:10, Zechariah 11:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:29 - thou shalt be Jeremiah 5:19 - Like as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Servants have ruled over us,.... The Targum is,

"the sons of Ham, who were given to be servants to the sons of Shem, they have ruled over us;''

referring to the prophecy of Noah, Genesis 9:26; or such as had been tributary to the Jews, as the Edomites; so Aben Ezra; the Babylon, an, are meant; and not the nobles and principal inhabitants only, but even their servants, had power and authority over the Jews and they were at their beck and command; which made their servitude the more disagreeable and intolerable:

[there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand; out of the hand of these servants.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Servants - i. e. Slaves. A terrible degradation to a high-spirited Jew.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 8. Servants have ruled over us — To be subject to such is the most painful and dishonourable bondage: -

Quio domini faciant, audent cum talia fures?

Virg. Ecl. iii. 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.