Lamentations 5:5

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Summary

Lamentations 5:5

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

Our necks are under persecution

Acts 15:10

Labour

Nehemiah 9:36

General references

Psalm 18:40

Bible References

Our necks are under persecution

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound;
By His hand they are knit together.
They have come upon my neck;
He has made my strength fail.
The Lord has given me into the hands
Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They chased us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

thus says the Lord to me—“Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have also given him the beasts of the field.”’”

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Labour

“Behold, we are slaves today,
And as to the land which You gave to our fathers to eat of its fruit and its bounty,
Behold, we are slaves in it.

General references

You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me,
And I

destroyed those who hated me.