Slaves(A) rule over us,
    and there is no one to free us from their hands.(B)

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For I will no longer have pity on the people of the land,” declares the Lord. “I will give everyone into the hands of their neighbors(A) and their king. They will devastate the land, and I will not rescue anyone from their hands.”(B)

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15 But the earlier governors—those preceding me—placed a heavy burden on the people and took forty shekels[a] of silver from them in addition to food and wine. Their assistants also lorded it over the people. But out of reverence for God(A) I did not act like that.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 5:15 That is, about 1 pound or about 460 grams

22 a servant who becomes king,(A)
    a godless fool who gets plenty to eat,

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or they will tear me apart like a lion(A)
    and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue(B) me.

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10 So now I will expose(A) her lewdness
    before the eyes of her lovers;(B)
    no one will take her out of my hands.(C)

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13     Yes, and from ancient days(A) I am he.(B)
No one can deliver out of my hand.
    When I act, who can reverse it?”(C)

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22 “Consider this, you who forget God,(A)
    or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:(B)

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though you know that I am not guilty(A)
    and that no one can rescue me from your hand?(B)

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His children(A) are far from safety,(B)
    crushed in court(C) without a defender.(D)

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19 But when Sanballat(A) the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem(B) the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us.(C) “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”

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43 The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.(A)

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