Lamentations 3:34

World English Bible (2000)

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:33 : 33 For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn't despise his captive people.
  • Ps 79:11 : 11 Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
  • Ps 102:20 : 20 to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;
  • Isa 14:17 : 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 saying to those who are bound, 'Come out!'; to those who are in darkness, 'Show yourselves!' "They shall feed in the ways, and on all bare heights shall be their pasture.
  • Isa 51:22-23 : 22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again: 23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."
  • Jer 50:17 : 17 Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go. 34 Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.
  • Jer 51:33-36 : 33 For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her. 34 Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out. 35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. 36 Therefore thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will plead your cause, and take vengeance for you; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.
  • Zech 9:11-12 : 11 As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water. 12 Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

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  • 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

  • 6 The foot shall tread it down; Even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy."

  • 33 For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

  • 3 He subdues nations under us, and peoples under our feet.

  • Ps 149:7-8
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    7 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;

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

  • 18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. For the Chief Musician. By David.

  • Job 34:24-26
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    24 He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

    25 Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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

  • 15 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

  • 3 You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • 17 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

  • Job 40:12-13
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    12 Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

    13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

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

  • 43 Then I beat them as small as the dust of the earth. I crushed them as the mire of the streets, and spread them abroad.

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

  • 8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

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

  • 23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.

  • 15 The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

  • 23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."

  • 20 to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

  • Lam 3:65-66
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    65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

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

  • 3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • 18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.

  • 12 He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

  • 6 I trod down the peoples in my anger, and made them drunk in my wrath, and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth."

  • 38 I will strike them through, so that they will not be able to rise. They shall fall under my feet.

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

  • 6 Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

  • 40 He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

  • 3 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

  • 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

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

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

  • 21 It shall happen in that day that Yahweh will punish the army of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth on the earth.

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    3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

  • 6 who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

  • 22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

  • 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

  • 21 He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

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

  • 9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • 16 because he didn't remember to show kindness, but persecuted the poor and needy man, the broken in heart, to kill them.

  • 17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.