Lamentations 5:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

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  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD. But behold, I will deliver every man into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They shall strike the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hand.
  • 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 reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food;
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yes, before the day was, I am He; and there is none who can deliver out of My hand: I will work, and who shall hinder it?
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 And now I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall rescue her out of my hand.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Now consider this, you who 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, and there is none to deliver them.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of Your hand.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brothers.
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The foreigner that is within you shall rise up above you very high; and you shall come down very low.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian heard it, they mocked us and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? Will you rebel against the king?

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  • Neh 9:34-37
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    34Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our forefathers kept Your law, nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies, which You testified against them.

    35For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

    36Here we are, servants today! And the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat its fruit and its bounty, here we are, servants in it.

    37And it yields much increase to the kings You have set over us because of our sins; also, they have dominion over our bodies and our cattle at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Lam 5:2-7
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    2Our inheritance is given to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

    4We have drunk our own water for money; our wood is sold to us.

    5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

    6We have given our hand to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread.

    7Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Neh 5:4-5
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    4There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

  • Lam 5:9
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    9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Ezra 9:7
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    7Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:14-15
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    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

    15And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 4:17-18
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    17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

  • Ps 106:42
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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 committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:

    6Neither have we listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

  • Isa 3:12
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    12As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

    3For now they shall say, 'We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do for us?'

  • Deut 26:6-7
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    72%

    6And the Egyptians mistreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:

    7And when we cried to the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression:

  • Num 20:15
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    15how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.

  • Ps 12:4
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    4Who have said, With our tongue we will prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

  • Prov 22:7
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    7The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
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    9For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

  • Exod 5:16
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    16There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make bricks: and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.

  • Isa 26:13
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    13O LORD our God, other lords beside You have had dominion over us, but by You only will we make mention of Your name.

  • Dan 9:10
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    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
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    13And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;

  • Dan 9:8
    71%

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

  • Ps 123:2-3
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    2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, until he has 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 yours: you never ruled over them; they were not called by your name.

  • 1 Sam 4:8
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    8Woe to us! who shall deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

  • Ps 2:3
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    3Let us break their bonds apart, 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
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    45You have made us like refuse and scorn among the people.

  • Neh 9:27
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    27Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who oppressed them. And in the time of their trouble, when they cried to You, You heard from heaven; and according to Your manifold mercies, You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hand of their enemies.

  • Lam 1:14
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    14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has 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 plundered; they are all of them trapped in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for a prey, and no one delivers; for a plunder, and no one says, '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 rebelled; You have not pardoned.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24For shame has devoured the labor 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 neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.