Lamentations 3:34

American Standard Version (1901)

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:33 : 33 For Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.
  • Ps 79:11 : 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;
  • Ps 102:20 : 20 To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;
  • Isa 14:17 : 17 that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 saying to them that are bound, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
  • Isa 51:22-23 : 22 Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again: 23 and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all that took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; Jehovah of hosts is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Jer 51:33-36 : 33 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed [ me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
  • Zech 9:11-12 : 11 As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water. 12 Turn you to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope: even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

  • 6The foot shall tread it down; even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

  • 33For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

  • 3He subdueth peoples under us, And nations under our feet.

  • Ps 149:7-8
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    7To execute vengeance upon the nations, And punishments upon the peoples;

    8To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

  • 18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

  • Job 34:24-26
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    24He breaketh in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.

    25Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;

  • 15what mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the face of the poor? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

  • 3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • 17that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

  • Job 40:12-13
    2 verses
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    12Look on every one that is proud, [and] bring him low; And tread down the wicked where they stand.

    13Hide them in the dust together; Bind their faces in the hidden [place] .

  • 19He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

  • 43Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did crush them as the mire of the streets, and did spread them abroad.

  • 4He will judge the poor of the people, He will save the children of the needy, And will break in pieces the oppressor.

  • 8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

  • 11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

  • 23that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • 15The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

  • 23and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, that have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that go over.

  • 20To hear the sighing of the prisoner; To loose those that are appointed to death;

  • Lam 3:65-66
    2 verses
    69%

    65Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

    66Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

  • 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • 18There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

  • 12And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 10He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

  • 6And I trod down the peoples in mine anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.

  • 38I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet.

  • 24He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 6Jehovah executeth righteous acts, And judgments for all that are oppressed.

  • 40He poureth contempt upon princes, And causeth them to wander in the waste, where there is no way.

  • 3For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

  • 9He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

  • 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: If [it be] not [he], who then is it?

  • 13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?

  • 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

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    3Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.

  • 6that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

  • 22For [God] shall hurl at him, and not spare: He would fain flee out of his hand.

  • 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

  • 21He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

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    9Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • 16Because he remembered not to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, And the broken in heart, to slay [them] .

  • 17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .