Jeremiæ 5:8

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Servi dominati sunt nostri:
non fuit qui redimeret de manu eorum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Equi amatores et emissarii facti sunt : unusquisque ad uxorem proximi sui hinniebat.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Servi dominantur nostri; non est qui redimat de manu eorum.

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.