And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

But when Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, heard it, they laughed us to scorn, and despised us, and said, What is this thing that ye do? will ye rebel against the king?

But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.