Lamentations 5:8

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Summary

Lamentations 5:8

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Servants

Proverbs 30:22

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Bible References

Servants

Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

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Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

So that he may not come rushing on my soul like a lion, wounding it, while there is no one to be my saviour.

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?

And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.