And he said: Cursed is Canaan; a servant of servants he shall be to his brethren.

The sojourners among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the servant the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arab heard of it, they mocked and despised us, and said, What is this thing that you are doing? Will you rebel against the king?

But the former governors who had been before me were heavy on the people, and took from them bread and wine, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people, but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

For a servant when he reigns, a fool when he is filled with food,

His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to rescue them.

although You know that I am not wicked, and there is no one who can rescue out of Your hand?

lest they tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, and there is no one to rescue.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

Yea, before the day was, I am He; and no one can deliver out of My hand; I work, and who will reverse it?

And now I will uncover her lewdness in the eyes of her lovers, and no man shall deliver her out of My hand.

For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land, says Jehovah. But, lo, I will deliver every man found, each one into his neighbor's hand, and into his king's hand. And they shall strike the land, and I will not deliver them out of their hand.