Lamentations 3:34

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"
  • Isa 49:9 : 9 saying to those who are bound, Go forth; 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 go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go 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 Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.
  • Jer 50:33-34 : 33 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 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 Hosts 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 hosts, 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 Nebuchadrezzar 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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  • 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 afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

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

  • Ps 149:7-8
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    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 man who is of the earth may terrify no more.

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

    25Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. 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 that you crush my people, And grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts.

  • 3You 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 Hosts.

  • 17who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"

  • Job 40:12-13
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    70%

    12Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 15The 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.

  • 23and 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 back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.

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

  • Lam 3:65-66
    2 verses
    69%

    65You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

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

  • 3Is 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?

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

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

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

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

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

  • 24He 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And shake the wicked out of it?

  • 21It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host 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 away their cords from us."

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

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

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

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

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    9You 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.

  • 16Because 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.