Lamentations 5:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside 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 the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour'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 he 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 reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
Isa 43:13 : 13 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
Hos 2:10 : 10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider{H8798)} this, ye that forget{H8802)} God, lest I tear you in pieces{H8799)}, and there be none to deliver{H8688)}.
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 Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine 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 stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
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
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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 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 dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
Lam 5:2-7
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2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to 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 necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Neh 5:4-5
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4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and 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 unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Lam 5:9
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9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Ezra 9:7
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7Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass 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 a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Dan 9:14-15
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14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not 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
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17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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42Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
Dan 9:5-6
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5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
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Isa 3:12
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12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
Hos 10:3
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3For now they shall say, We have no king, because we feared not the LORD; what then should a king do to us?
Deut 26:6-7
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6And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
7And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:
Num 20:15
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15How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
Ps 12:4
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4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
Prov 22:7
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7The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.
2 Chr 29:9
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Jer 14:20
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20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Exod 5:16
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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
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13O LORD our God, other lords beside 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 the LORD 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 trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
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
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71%
2Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
3Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
Isa 63:19
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19We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
1 Sam 4:8
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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 the plagues in the wilderness.
Ps 2:3
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3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Job 3:19
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19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Lam 3:45
71%
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Neh 9:27
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27Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.
Lam 1:14
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14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Isa 42:22
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22But this is a people robbed and spoiled; 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
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12Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
Lam 3:42
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42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
Jer 3:24
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24For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Isa 3:5
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5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.