Verse 8

Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 5:15 : 15 The former governors who were before me placed heavy burdens on the people, taking food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Even their servants oppressed the people. But because of the fear of God, I did not act like that.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no longer show pity to the people of the land,' declares the LORD. 'I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will crush the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.'
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 O Lord, my God, I take refuge in You; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 A servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Even from eternity I am He; none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and who lavished her with silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed at the gate with no one to deliver them.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 You know that I am not wicked, and that no one can deliver me from Your hand.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 he said, 'Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.'
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The foreigner who resides among you will rise higher and higher above you, but you will sink lower and lower.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arabian heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. They said, "What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?"