Lamentations 5:8

A Request For Mercy

⁷ Our fathers sinned; they no longer exist,
but we bear their punishment.
⁸ Slaves rule over us;
no one rescues us from their hands.
⁹ We secure our food at the risk of our lives
because of the sword in the wilderness.

Deliver Us

Rule Over

No

Nehemiah 5:15

The governors who preceded me had heavily burdened the people, taking food and wine from them, as well as a pound of silver. Their subordinates also oppressed the people, but I didn’t do this, because of the fear of God.

Zechariah 11:6

Indeed, I will no longer have compassion on the inhabitants of the land”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “Instead, I will turn everyone over to his neighbor and his king. They will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from them.”

Psalm 7:2

or they will tear me like a lion,
ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

Proverbs 30:22

a servant when he becomes king,
a fool when he is stuffed with food,

Genesis 9:25

he said:

Canaan will be cursed.
He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.

Deuteronomy 28:43

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

Nehemiah 2:19

When Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official, and Geshem the Arab heard about this, they mocked and despised us, and said, “What is this you’re doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.

Job 10:7

even though You know that I am not wicked
and that there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?

Psalm 50:22

“Understand this, you who forget God,
or I will tear you apart,
and there will be no one to rescue you.

Isaiah 43:13

Also, from today on I am He alone,
and none can deliver from My hand.
I act, and who can reverse it?”

Hosea 2:10

Now I will expose her shame
in the sight of her lovers,
and no one will rescue her from My hands.