Lamentations 5:8
The Scripture
(8) Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)
The people of Jerusalem weep and lament as their city is destroyed and the king's son is taken away. They cry out to God for his wrath and for the loss of their beloved. Yet they also recall the promise of God's mercy and the hope of a future restoration.
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Genesis 9:25Deuteronomy 28:43Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 5:15Proverbs 30:22Job 5:4Job 10:7Psalms 7:2Psalms 50:22Isaiah 43:13Hosea 2:10Zechariah 11:6
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