Lamentations 5:8
Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 5
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”Lamentations 5:8
What Does Lamentations 5:8 Mean?
Lamentations 5:8 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 5, verse 8 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 14 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (14)
These passages are connected to Lamentations 5:8 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Nehemiah 5:15“But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.”Proverbs 30:22“For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;”Zechariah 11:6“For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”Psalms 7:2“Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.”Jeremiah 5:19“And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.”Genesis 9:25“And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”Deuteronomy 28:29“And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.”Deuteronomy 28:43“The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.”Nehemiah 2:19“But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?”Job 5:4“His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.”Job 10:7“Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.”Psalms 50:22“Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.”Isaiah 43:13“Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?”Hosea 2:10“And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.”
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