Lamentaciones 5:8

8 Los esclavos son ahora nuestros amos;
no ha quedado nadie para rescatarnos.

Lamentaciones 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:8

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 Genesis 9:27 ) ; 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.

Lamentaciones 5:8 In-Context

6 Nos sometimos a Egipto y a Asiria
para conseguir alimentos y así sobrevivir.

7 Nuestros antepasados pecaron, pero murieron,
¡y nosotros sufrimos el castigo que ellos merecían!

8 Los esclavos son ahora nuestros amos;
no ha quedado nadie para rescatarnos.

9 Buscamos comida a riesgo de nuestra vida
porque la violencia domina el campo.

10 El hambre hizo ennegrecer nuestra piel
como si hubiera sido quemada en el horno.