Lamentations 5:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors that were before me were chargeable unto the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest they tear my soul like a lion, Rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yea, since the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt 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 laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:34-37
    4 verses
    81%

    34neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies wherewith thou didst testify against them.

    35For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

    36Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.

    37And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Lam 5:2-7
    6 verses
    80%

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

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

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

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

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

    7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.

  • Neh 5:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already] : neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Lam 5:9
    77%

    9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Ezra 9:7
    74%

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

  • Dan 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    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 cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

  • Ps 106:42
    73%

    42Their enemies also oppressed them, And they were brought into subjection under their hand.

  • Dan 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from thy precepts and from thine ordinances;

    6neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, that spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Isa 3:12
    73%

    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

    3Surely now shall they say, We have no king; for we fear not Jehovah; and the king, what can he do for us?

  • Deut 26:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

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

  • Num 20:15
    72%

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

  • Ps 12:4
    72%

    4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?

  • Prov 22:7
    72%

    7The rich ruleth over the poor; And the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    72%

    9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Jer 14:20
    72%

    20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.

  • Exod 5:16
    72%

    16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

  • Isa 26:13
    71%

    13O Jehovah our God, other lords besides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

  • Dan 9:10
    71%

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

  • Ezra 9:13
    71%

    13And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such a remnant,

  • Dan 9:8
    71%

    8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

  • Ps 123:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid unto the hand of her mistress; So our eyes [look] unto Jehovah our God, Until he have mercy upon us.

    3Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

  • Isa 63:19
    71%

    19We are become as they over whom thou never barest rule, as they that were not called by thy name.

  • 1 Sam 4:8
    71%

    8Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.

  • Ps 2:3
    71%

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

  • Job 3:19
    71%

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

  • Lam 3:45
    71%

    45Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • Neh 9:27
    71%

    27Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

  • Lam 1:14
    71%

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

  • Isa 42:22
    71%

    22But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

  • Ps 108:12
    71%

    12Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.

  • Lam 3:42
    71%

    42We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.

  • Jer 3:24
    70%

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

  • Isa 3:5
    70%

    5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.