Lamentations 5:8

New English Translation

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.

Cross References

Genesis 9:25

So he said, “Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves he will be to his brothers.”

Nehemiah 2:19

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard all this, they derided us and expressed contempt toward us. They said, “What is this you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Nehemiah 5:15

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

Job 10:7

although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

Psalm 50:22

Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.

Psalm 7:2

Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.

Proverbs 30:22

under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food,

Isaiah 43:13

From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Hosea 2:10

Soon I will expose her lewd nakedness in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to rescue her from me!

Zechariah 11:6

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land,” says the Lord, “but instead I will turn every last person over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.