Lamentations 5:8

World English Bible (2000)

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 For a servant when he is king; a fool when he is filled with food;
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 He said, "Canaan is cursed. He will be servant of servants to his brothers."
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, "What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?"

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    34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you testified against them.

    35For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and rich land which you gave before them, neither did they turn from their wicked works.

    36"Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.

    37It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Lam 5:2-7
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    80%

    2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

    4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

    7Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.

  • Neh 5:4-5
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    4There were also some who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children. Behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters have been brought into bondage. Neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards."

  • Lam 5:9
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    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:14-15
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    14Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

    15Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

  • Ps 106:42
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    42Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

    6neither have we listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Isa 3:12
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    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?"

  • Deut 26:6-7
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    6The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:

    7and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

  • Ps 12:4
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    4who have said, "With our tongue we will prevail. Our lips are our own. Who is lord over us?"

  • Prov 22:7
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    7The rich rule over the poor. The borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9For, behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • Exod 5:16
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    16No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

  • Isa 26:13
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    13Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us, but by you only will we make mention of your name.

  • Dan 9:10
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    10neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

  • Ezra 9:13
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    13"After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

  • Dan 9:8
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    8Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

  • Ps 123:2-3
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    71%

    2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

    3Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

  • Isa 63:19
    71%

    19We have become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

  • 1 Sam 4:8
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    8Woe to us! Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

  • Ps 2:3
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    3"Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

  • Job 3:19
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    19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

  • Lam 3:45
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    45You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • Neh 9:27
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    27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them. In the time of their trouble, when they cried to you, you heard from heaven; and according to your manifold mercies you gave them saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

  • Lam 1:14
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    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Isa 42:22
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    22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become a prey, and no one delivers; and a spoil, and no one says, 'Restore them!'

  • Ps 108:12
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    12Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

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    42We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

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    24But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Isa 3:5
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    5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.