Lamentations 5:8
“Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.”
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
Cross-References
“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.”
“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.”
“Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.”
“His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.”
“Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.”