Lamentations 5:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Servants rule over us, with no one to tear us from their hands.

Cross References

Genesis 9:25

he said: “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

Nehemiah 2:19

When they heard about this, Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab mocked and ridiculed us. “What are you doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 5:15

The earlier governors, my predecessors, had laid a heavy burden on the people, taking from them each day forty silver shekels for their food; then, too, their attendants oppressed the people. But I, because I feared God, did not do this.

Job 10:7

Even though you know that I am not wicked, and that none can deliver me out of your hand?

Job 5:4

May his children be far from safety; may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.

Psalm 50:22

“Now understand this, you who forget God, lest I start ripping apart and there be no rescuer.

Psalm 7:2

Lord my God, in you I trusted; save me; rescue me from all who pursue me,

Proverbs 30:22

Under a slave who becomes king, and a fool who is glutted with food;

Isaiah 43:13

yes, from eternity I am he; There is none who can deliver from my hand: I act and who can cancel it?

Hosea 2:10

She did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, I who lavished upon her silver, and gold, which they used for Baal,

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the earth—oracle of the Lord.—Yes, I will deliver them into each other’s power, or into the power of their kings; they will crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.

Deuteronomy 28:43

The resident aliens among you will rise above you higher and higher, while you sink lower and lower.