Lamentations 5:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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Referenced Verses

  • Neh 5:15 : 15 But the former governors who were before me were chargeable to the people, and took of them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants bore rule over the people: but I didn't do so, because of the fear of God.
  • Zech 11:6 : 6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land," says Yahweh; "but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor's hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them."
  • Ps 7:2 : 2 Lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, Ripping it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
  • Prov 30:22 : 22 For a servant when he is king; A fool when he is filled with food;
  • Isa 43:13 : 13 Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who can hinder it?
  • Hos 2:10 : 10 Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, And no one will deliver her out of my hand.
  • Ps 50:22 : 22 "Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • Job 5:4 : 4 His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
  • Job 10:7 : 7 Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
  • Gen 9:25 : 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."
  • Deut 28:43 : 43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
  • Neh 2:19 : 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you do? will you rebel against the king?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Neh 9:34-37
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    81%

    34 neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.

    35 For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

    36 Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.

    37 It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

  • Lam 5:2-7
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    80%

    2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, Our houses to aliens.

    3 We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

    4 We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold to us.

    5 Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

    6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

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

  • Neh 5:4-5
    2 verses
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    4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [on] our fields and our vineyards.

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as their children: and, behold, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.

  • Lam 5:9
    77%

    9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Ezra 9:7
    74%

    7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

  • Dan 9:14-15
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    74%

    14 Therefore has Yahweh watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.

    15 Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten you renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

  • Lam 4:17-18
    2 verses
    73%

    17 Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18 They hunt our steps, so that we can't go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

  • Ps 106:42
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    42 Their enemies also oppressed them. They were brought into subjection under their hand.

  • Dan 9:5-6
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    73%

    5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;

    6 neither 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
    73%

    12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.

  • Hos 10:3
    72%

    3 Surely now they will say, "We have no king; for we don't fear Yahweh; And the king, what can he do for us?"

  • Deut 26:6-7
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    72%

    6 The Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid on us hard bondage:

    7 and we cried to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and Yahweh heard our voice, and saw our affliction, and our toil, and our oppression;

  • Num 20:15
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    15 how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

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

  • Prov 22:7
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    72%

    9 For, 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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    20 We acknowledge, Yahweh, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against you.

  • Exod 5:16
    72%

    16 No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick!' and, behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

  • Isa 26:13
    71%

    13 Yahweh our God, other lords besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only will we make mention of your name.

  • Dan 9:10
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    10 neither have we obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

  • Ezra 9:13
    71%

    13 After all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, seeing that you our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

  • Dan 9:8
    71%

    8 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
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; So our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, Until he has mercy on us.

    3 Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, For we have endured much contempt.

  • Isa 63:19
    71%

    19 We are become as they over whom you never bear rule, as those who were not called by your name.

  • 1 Sam 4:8
    71%

    8 Woe to us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods? these are the gods that struck the Egyptians with all manner of plagues in the wilderness.

  • Ps 2:3
    71%

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

  • Job 3:19
    71%

    19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

  • Lam 3:45
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    45 You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

  • Neh 9:27
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    27 Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who distressed 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 saviors who saved them out of the hand of their adversaries.

  • Lam 1:14
    71%

    14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

  • Isa 42:22
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    22 But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.

  • Ps 108:12
    71%

    12 Give us help against the enemy, For the help of man is vain.

  • Lam 3:42
    71%

    42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned.

  • Jer 3:24
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    24 But the shameful thing 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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    5 The people will be oppressed, Everyone by another, And everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, And the base against the honorable.