And he said, Cursed be the servant Canaan, a slave shall he be to his brothers.

The stranger that is within you shall be lifted up, and you shall be brought down very low.

And Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Gesham the Arabian, heard [it], and they laughed us to scorn, and came to us, and said, What [is] this thing that you are doing? Are you revolting against the king?

But as for the former acts of extortion in which [those who were] before me oppressed them, they even took of them their last money, forty shekels for bread and wine; and the [very] outcasts of them exercised authority over the people; but I did not so, because of the fear of God.

if a servant should reign, or a fool be filled with food;

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

For You know that I have not committed iniquity, but who is he that can deliver out of Your hands?

lest at any time [the enemy] seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, nor to save.

Now consider these things, all you that forget God, lest He tear [you], and there be none to deliver.

even from the beginning; and there is none that can deliver out of My hands; I will work, and who shall turn it back?

And now I will expose her uncleanness before her lovers, and no one shall by any means deliver her out of My hand.

Therefore I will no longer have mercy upon the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord: but, behold, I will deliver up the men, everyone [of them,] into the hand of his neighbor, and into the hand of his king; and they shall destroy the land, and I will not rescue out of their hand.