Lamentations 5:8

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Lamentations 5:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 9:25

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Deuteronomy 28:43

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

Nehemiah 2:19

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

Nehemiah 5:15

The governors before me had heavily burdened the people, taking from them bread and wine plus forty shekels of silver. Their servants also oppressed the people, but I did not do this because of my fear of God.

Proverbs 30:22

a servant who becomes king, a fool who is filled with food,

Job 5:4

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

Job 10:7

though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?

Psalms 7:2

or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Psalms 50:22

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Isaiah 43:13

Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”

Hosea 2:10

And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

Zechariah 11:6

For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”