Lamentations 5:8

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Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the LORD,“but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who becomes stuffed with food,
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
  • Job 10:7 : 7 although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 So he said,“Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The resident foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said,“What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:34-37
    4 verses
    81%

    34Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them.

    35Even when they were in their kingdom and benefiting from your incredible goodness that you had lavished on them in the spacious and fertile land you had set before them, they did not serve you, nor did they turn from their evil practices.

    36“So today we are slaves! In the very land you gave to our ancestors to eat its fruit and to enjoy its good things– we are slaves!

    37Its abundant produce goes to the kings you have placed over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and our livestock as they see fit, and we are in great distress!

  • Lam 5:2-7
    6 verses
    80%

    2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

    3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

    4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

    5We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.

    6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.

    7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.

  • Neh 5:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4Then there were those who said,“We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.

    5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”

  • Lam 5:9
    77%

    9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.

  • Ezra 9:7
    74%

    7From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment– right up to the present time.

  • Dan 9:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.

    15“Now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with great power and made a name for yourself that is remembered to this day– we have sinned and behaved wickedly.

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17ע(Ayin)The People of Jerusalem Lament: Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.

    18צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!

  • Ps 106:42
    73%

    42Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority.

  • Dan 9:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

    6We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well.

  • Isa 3:12
    73%

    12Oppressors treat my people cruelly; creditors rule over them. My people’s leaders mislead them; they give you confusing directions.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

    3The Lord Will Punish Israel by Removing Its Kings Very soon they will say,“We have no king since we did not fear the LORD. But what can a king do for us anyway?”

  • Deut 26:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

    7So we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.

  • Num 20:15
    72%

    15how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.

  • Ps 12:4
    72%

    4They say,“We speak persuasively; we know how to flatter and boast. Who is our master?”

  • Prov 22:7
    72%

    7The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    72%

    9Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.

  • Jer 14:20
    72%

    20LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.

  • Exod 5:16
    72%

    16No straw is given to your servants, but we are told,‘Make bricks!’ Your servants are even being beaten, but the fault is with your people.”

  • Isa 26:13
    71%

    13O LORD, our God, masters other than you have ruled us, but we praise your name alone.

  • Dan 9:10
    71%

    10We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

  • Ezra 9:13
    71%

    13“Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

  • Dan 9:8
    71%

    8O LORD, we have been humiliated– our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors– because we have sinned against you.

  • Ps 123:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2Look, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a female servant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes will look to the LORD, our God, until he shows us favor.

    3Show us favor, O LORD, show us favor! For we have had our fill of humiliation, and then some.

  • Isa 63:19
    71%

    19We existed from ancient times, but you did not rule over them; they were not your subjects.

  • 1 Sam 4:8
    71%

    8Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!

  • Ps 2:3
    71%

    3They say,“Let’s tear off the shackles they’ve put on us! Let’s free ourselves from their ropes!”

  • Job 3:19
    71%

    19Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

  • Lam 3:45
    71%

    45You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.

  • Neh 9:27
    71%

    27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.

  • Lam 1:14
    71%

    14נ(Nun) My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke; they are fastened together by his hand. He has placed his yoke on my neck; he has sapped my strength. The Lord has handed me over to those whom I cannot resist.

  • Isa 42:22
    71%

    22But these people are looted and plundered; all of them are trapped in pits and held captive in prisons. They were carried away as loot with no one to rescue them; they were carried away as plunder, and no one says,“Bring that back!”

  • Ps 108:12
    71%

    12Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.

  • Lam 3:42
    71%

    42“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”

  • Jer 3:24
    70%

    24From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.

  • Isa 3:5
    70%

    5The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.