“The people's slavery is also exaggerated by the conditions of those enslaving, or dominating. As Verse 8 says: "Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand." Namely, just as the Moabites and the Idumaeans, and other neighbors, by whom they were first dominated. As Proverbs reminds us: "Under three…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
— Lamentations 5:8 —
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.