Lamentations 5:8

Lamentations 5:8
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

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Genesis 10:6
And the sons of Ham: Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan.

Genesis 10:8
And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who was the first of the great men of the earth.

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Deuteronomy 4:25
If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

Deuteronomy 4:26
May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you, cutting you off from that land which you are going over Jordan to take; your days will not be long in that land, but you will come to a complete end.

Deuteronomy 4:27
And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

Deuteronomy 4:28
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

Deuteronomy 28:47
Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;

Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have done two evils; they have given up me, the fountain of living waters, and have made for themselves water-holes, cut out from the rock, broken water-holes, of no use for storing water.

Jeremiah 5:19
And it will come about, when you say, Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that you will say to them, As you gave me up, making yourselves servants to strange gods in your land, so will you be servants to strange men in a land which is not yours.

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Deuteronomy 15:6
For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.

Deuteronomy 28:43
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.

Psalms 106:41
And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters.

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Job 5:4
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

Job 10:7
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?

Psalms 50:22
Now keep this in mind, you who have no memory of God, for fear that you may be crushed under my hand, with no one to give you help:

Isaiah 43:13
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?

Hosea 2:10
And now I will make her shame clear before the eyes of her lovers, and no one will take her out of my hand.

Zechariah 11:6
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.

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Proverbs 19:10
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

Proverbs 30:22
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

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Jeremiah 2:14
Is Israel a servant? has he been a house-servant from birth? why has he been made waste?

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Jeremiah 13:9
The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 18:4
And when the vessel, which he was forming out of earth, got damaged in the hand of the potter, he made it again into another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it.

Jeremiah 18:5
Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Jeremiah 18:6
O Israel, am I not able to do with you as this potter does? says the Lord. See, like earth in the potter's hand are you in my hands, O Israel.

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Jeremiah 39:3
All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon.

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Lamentations 3:30
Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.

Lamentations 4:20
Our breath of life, he on whom the holy oil was put, was taken in their holes; of whom we said, Under his shade we will be living among the nations.

Micah 5:1
Now you will give yourselves deep wounds for grief; they will put up a wall round us: they will give the judge of Israel a blow on the face with a rod.

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Judges 5:11
Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel.

Psalms 42:9
I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

Psalms 55:3
I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

Ecclesiastes 4:1
And again I saw all the cruel things which are done under the sun; there was the weeping of those who have evil done to them, and they had no comforter: and from the hands of the evil-doers there went out power, but they had no comforter.

Lamentations 5:1
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

Lamentations 5:9
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.

Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.

Lamentations 5:12
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.

Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

Lamentations 5:16
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Lamentations 5:19
You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.

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Daniel 4:27
For this cause, O King, let my suggestion be pleasing to you, and let your sins be covered by righteousness and your evil-doing by mercy to the poor, so that the time of your well-being may be longer.

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