Lamentations 3:34

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In a man's crushing under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:33 : 33 For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.
  • Ps 79:11 : 11 Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;
  • Ps 102:20 : 20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
  • Isa 14:17 : 17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 Saying to those who are in chains, Go free; to those who are in the dark, Come out into the light. They will get food by the way wherever they go, and have grass-lands on all the dry mountain-tops.
  • Isa 51:22-23 : 22 This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you: 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have been driving him away: first he was attacked by the king of Assyria, and now his bones have been broken by Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 This is what the Lord of armies has said: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are crushed down together: all those who took them prisoner keep them in a tight grip; they will not let them go. 34 Their saviour is strong; the Lord of armies is his name: he will certainly take up their cause, so that he may give rest to the earth and trouble to the people of Babylon.
  • Jer 51:33-36 : 33 For these are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a grain-floor when it is stamped down; before long, the time of her grain-cutting will come. 34 Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a meal of me, violently crushing me, he has made me a vessel with nothing in it, he has taken me in his mouth like a dragon, he has made his stomach full with my delicate flesh, crushing me with his teeth. 35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say. 36 For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.
  • Zech 9:11-12 : 11 And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water. 12 And they will come back to you, O daughter of Zion, as prisoners of hope: today I say to you that I will give you back twice as much;

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    35 In his turning away the right of a man before the face of the Most High.

  • Isa 26:6
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    6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

  • Lam 3:33
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    33 For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.

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    3 He will put down the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet.

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    7 To give the nations the reward of their sins, and the peoples their punishment;

    8 To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

  • Ps 10:18
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    18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.

  • Job 34:24-26
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    24 He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.

    25 For he has knowledge of their works, overturning them in the night, so that they are crushed.

    26 The evil-doers are broken by his wrath, he puts his hand on them with force before the eyes of all onlookers.

  • Isa 3:15
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    15 By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

  • Mal 4:3
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    3 And the evil-doers will be crushed under you, they will be dust under your feet, in the day when I do my work, says the Lord of armies.

  • Isa 14:17
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    17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

  • Job 40:12-13
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    12 His tail is curving like a cedar; the muscles of his legs are joined together.

    13 His bones are pipes of brass, his legs are like rods of iron.

  • Job 12:19
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    19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

  • 2 Sam 22:43
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    43 Then they were crushed as small as the dust of the earth, stamped down under my feet like the waste of the streets.

  • Ps 72:4
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  • Job 36:8
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    8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

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    11 He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

  • Isa 40:23
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    23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

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    15 The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.

  • Isa 51:23
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    23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

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    20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;

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    69%

    65 You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

    66 You will go after them in wrath, and put an end to them from under the heavens of the Lord.

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    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

  • Job 3:18
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    18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

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    10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.

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    38 I will give them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.

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    6 The Lord gives decisions in righteousness for all who are in trouble.

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    9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

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    3 Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

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    22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand.

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