Lamentations 5:8

New International Version

Slaves rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their hands.

Cross References

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the Lord. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”

Nehemiah 5:15

But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God I did not act like that.

Proverbs 30:22

a servant who becomes king, a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,

Psalm 7:2

or they will tear me apart like a lion and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Hosea 2:10

So now I will expose her lewdness before the eyes of her lovers; no one will take her out of my hands.

Isaiah 43:13

Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

Psalm 50:22

“Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Job 10:7

though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Nehemiah 2:19

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

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

Genesis 9:25

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