Lamentations 3:34

KJV1611 – Modern English

To crush under His feet all the prisoners of the earth,

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  • Ps 69:33 : 33 For the LORD hears the poor and does not despise his prisoners.
  • Ps 79:11 : 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before You; according to the greatness of Your power, preserve those appointed to die;
  • Ps 102:20 : 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death,
  • Isa 14:17 : 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 That you may say to the prisoners, Go forth; to those who are in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
  • Isa 51:22-23 : 22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, 'Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again: 23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you; who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may go over:' and you have laid your body like the ground, and like the street, for those who went over.'
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven them away: first the king of Assyria has devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 Thus says the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all who took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Jer 51:33-36 : 33 For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor; it is time to thresh her; yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come. 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel; he has swallowed me up like a monster, he has filled his belly with my delicacies, he has thrown me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus says the LORD: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
  • Zech 9:11-12 : 11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant I have sent forth your prisoners out of the pit where there is no water. 12 Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope: even today I declare that I will restore double to you;

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 does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.

  • 3He shall subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

  • Ps 149:7-8
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    72%

    7To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

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

  • 18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may oppress no more.

  • Job 34:24-26
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    24He shall break in pieces mighty men without number and set others in their place.

    25Therefore He knows their works, and He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

    26He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others,

  • 15What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

  • 3And you shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I do this, says the LORD of hosts.

  • 17That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities; who did not open the house of his prisoners?

  • Job 40:12-13
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    70%

    12Look on everyone that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

    13Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.

  • 19He leads princes away plundered, and overthrows the mighty.

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

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

  • 8And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction;

  • 11He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.

  • 23Who brings the princes to nothing; he makes the judges of the earth as vanity.

  • 15The Lord has trodden underfoot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

  • 23But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you; who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may go over:' and you have laid your body like the ground, and like the street, for those who went over.'

  • 20To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to release those appointed to death,

  • Lam 3:65-66
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    69%

    65Give them sorrow of heart, Your curse upon them.

    66Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

  • 3Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • 18There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

  • 12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 10He crouches and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • 6And I will tread down the people in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.

  • 38I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet.

  • 24He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 6The LORD executes righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.

  • 40He pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way.

  • 3For behold, the LORD comes 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 saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no one prevail.

  • 24The earth is given into the hand 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 ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

  • 21And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones who are on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

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    3Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.

  • 6He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hinders.

  • 22For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

  • 11Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.

  • 21He pours contempt on princes, and weakens the strength of the mighty.

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    9You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

  • 9Because of the multitude of oppressions, they make the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the power of the mighty.

  • 16Because he did not remember to show mercy but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the brokenhearted.

  • 17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.