Lamentations 5:5 “We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.”

Lamentations 5:5

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

World English Bible

Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

American Standard Version

Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Geneva Bible 1599

Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.

Darby Translation

Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

Young's Literal Translation

For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured — there hath been no rest for us.

Bible in Basic English

Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

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Cross references

“Our necks are under persecution”

Lamentations 1:14 Deuteronomy 28:48 Jeremiah 27:8 Jeremiah 28:14 Lamentations 4:19 Jeremiah 27:2

Lamentations 1:14 · BSB

My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

Deuteronomy 28:48 · BSB

you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Jeremiah 27:8 · BSB

As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destro…

Jeremiah 28:14 · BSB

For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him c…

Lamentations 4:19 · BSB

Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Jeremiah 27:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD said to me: “Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck.

“labour”

Nehemiah 9:36 Nehemiah 9:37

Nehemiah 9:36 · BSB

So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness— here we are as slaves!

Nehemiah 9:37 · BSB

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

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