Lamentations 3:34

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To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

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  • Ps 69:33 : 33 The humble see it and rejoice; you who seek God, may your hearts live.
  • Ps 79:11 : 11 Let the groans of the prisoners come before You; in accordance with the greatness of Your arm, preserve those condemned to die.
  • Ps 102:20 : 20 For he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD observed the earth,
  • Isa 14:17 : 17 Who made the world a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to release his prisoners to their homes?'
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 To say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Show yourselves.' They will feed along the roads and find pasture on every barren hill.
  • Isa 51:22-23 : 22 This is what your Lord, the Lord your God who defends His people, says: 'See, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering, the goblet of My wrath. You will never drink from it again.' 23 I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, 'Bow down so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, like a street for them to walk over.
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep chased by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to gnaw at his bones was Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The people of Israel and the people of Judah are oppressed together. All their captors hold them fast and refuse to let them go. 34 But their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of Hosts is His name. He will vigorously defend their cause to bring rest to the land but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Jer 51:33-36 : 33 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; in a little while her harvest time will come.' 34 Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies. He has rinsed me out. 35 May the violence done to me and my flesh be upon Babylon, says the inhabitant of Zion. May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, says Jerusalem. 36 Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Behold, I will defend your cause and take vengeance for you. I will dry up her sea and make her fountains dry.'
  • Zech 9:11-12 : 11 As for you, because of the blood of your covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit. 12 Return to your stronghold, prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

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  • 35to deny a man justice in the presence of the Most High,

  • 6The feet of the oppressed, the footsteps of the needy, will trample it.

  • 33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.

  • 3For the LORD Most High is an awesome King, great over all the earth.

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    7to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,

    8to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron shackles,

  • 18To vindicate the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man, who is of the earth, will no longer terrorize.

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    24He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets others in their place.

    25Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

    26He strikes them down for their wickedness in a place where all can see.

  • 15'Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?' declares the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.

  • 17Who made the world a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to release his prisoners to their homes?'

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    12Look at every proud person and humble him, and crush the wicked where they stand.

    13Bury them together in the dust; bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • 19"He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty."

  • 43I ground them as fine as the dust of the earth; I crushed them and trampled them like mud in the streets.

  • 4He will judge the poor of the people, save the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor.

  • 8If they are bound in chains and held captive by cords of suffering,

  • 11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.

  • 23He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

  • 15The Lord has rejected all my mighty men in my midst; he summoned an assembly against me to crush my young men. Like in a winepress, the Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah.

  • 23I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, 'Bow down so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, like a street for them to walk over.

  • 20For he looked down from his holy height; from heaven the LORD observed the earth,

  • Lam 3:65-66
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    65Give them hardness of heart; may Your curse be upon them.

    66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.

  • 3Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

  • 18Together the prisoners are at ease; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

  • 12He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • 10He crouches, he bows down, and the helpless fall by his strong claws.

  • 6I trampled the nations in my anger; in my wrath, I made them drunk and poured their lifeblood onto the ground.

  • 38I pursue my enemies and overtake them; I do not turn back until they are destroyed.

  • 24He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

  • 6The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.

  • 40He pours out contempt on nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

  • 3For behold, the LORD is coming out of His dwelling place; He will descend and tread on the high places of the earth.

  • 9'He guards the feet of His faithful ones, but the wicked are silenced in darkness. For it is not by strength that one prevails.'

  • 24The earth is given into the hands of the wicked; He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

  • 13that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

  • 21On that day, the Lord will punish the host of the heavens above and the kings of the earth below.

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    3Let us break their chains and throw off their ropes from us.

  • 6which struck the nations in anger with unending blows, that subdued the nations in wrath, with relentless persecution.

  • 22It hurls itself against him without mercy; he flees desperately from its power.

  • 11Terrors frighten him on every side and chase him at his heels.

  • 21He pours out contempt on nobles and loosens the belts of the strong.

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    9You will break them with an iron rod; You will shatter them like a potter's vessel.

  • 9People cry out because of the multitude of oppressions; they plead for help because of the power of the mighty.

  • 16Because he did not remember to show kindness but pursued the poor and needy and brokenhearted to their death.

  • 17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.