Lamentations 3:34
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,”
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BSBPD
“To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:34 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 69:33For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
- Psalms 79:11May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
- Psalms 102:20to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
- Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
- Isaiah 49:9to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.
- Isaiah 51:22Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of staggering. From that goblet, the cup of My fury, you will never drink again.
- Jeremiah 50:17Israel is a scattered flock, chased away by lions. The first to devour him was the king of Assyria; the last to crush his bones was Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.”
- Jeremiah 50:33This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “The sons of Israel are oppressed, and the sons of Judah as well. All their captors hold them fast, refusing to release them.
- Jeremiah 51:33For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
- Zechariah 9:11As for you,because of the blood of My covenant,I will release your prisonersfrom the waterless pit.
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