Verse 18

There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 39:7 : 7 He mocks the city's throng, nor does he heed the driver's shout.
  • Isa 14:3-4 : 3 And it will come to pass in the day that the LORD gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, 4 That you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
  • Exod 5:6-8 : 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, 7 You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks as before: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8 And the quota of bricks, which they made before, you shall lay upon them; you shall not diminish anything from it: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
  • Exod 5:15-19 : 15 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Why do you deal this way with your servants? 16 There 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. 17 But he said, You are idle, you are idle: therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. 18 Go therefore now, and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks. 19 And the officers of the children of Israel realized they were in trouble when it was said, You shall not diminish anything from your bricks of your daily task.
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, for Sisera had nine hundred chariots of iron, and for twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.