Slaves rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, declares the Lord. Behold, I will cause each of them to fall into the hand of his neighbor, and each into the hand of his king, and they shall crush the land, and I will deliver none from their hand.”
The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their daily ration forty shekels of silver. Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;
lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver.
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one shall rescue her out of my hand.
Also henceforth I am he; there is none who can deliver from my hand; I work, and who can turn it back?”
“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite servant and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they jeered at us and despised us and said, “What is this thing that you are doing? Are you rebelling against the king?”
The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.
he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
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