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

There

Zechariah 11:6

Bible References

Servants

So he said,
“Cursed be Canaan;

A servant of servants

He shall be to his brothers.”

The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard it, they mocked us and despised us and said, “What is this thing you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

But the former governors who were before me laid burdens on the people and took from them bread and wine besides forty shekels of silver; even their servants domineered the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of God.

Under a slave when he becomes king,
And a fool when he is satisfied with food,

There

“His sons are far from safety,
They are even oppressed in the gate,
And there is no deliverer.

‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty,
Yet there is no deliverance from Your hand.

Or he will tear my soul like a lion,

Dragging me away, while there is none to deliver.

“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be none to deliver.

“Even

from eternity I am He,

And there is none who can deliver out of My hand;

I act and who can reverse it?”

“And then I will uncover her lewdness
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her out of My hand.

For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord; “but behold, I will cause the men to fall, each into another’s power and into the power of his king; and they will strike the land, and I will not deliver them from their power.”