OLD TESTAMENT

Lamentations 5:8

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Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

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Verse 8. Servants. One had command over another. Matthew 24:45. The Chaldees were like slaves, and the race of Cham was condemned to servitude. Genesis 9:26. Calmet.—The Jews had formerly dominion over Edom, and so forth who now treated them so cruelly. Menochius. Lyran.

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