Lamentations 5:8

Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

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Genesis 9:25
He said, “Canaan is cursed. He will be a servant of servants to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26
He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem. Let Canaan be his servant.

Nehemiah 5:15
But the former governors who were before me were supported by the people, and took bread and wine from them, plus forty shekels of silver; yes, even their servants ruled over the people, but I didn’t do so, because of the fear of God.

Nehemiah 2:19
But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite servant, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they ridiculed us and despised us, and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?”

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Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:4
We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.

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

Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Judges 5:8
They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.

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Exodus 19:6
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”

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Psalms 7:2
lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

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