Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution
Labour
General references
Bible References
Our necks are under persecution
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of which I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 28:48
thou shalt serve thine enemies whom Jehovah will send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of everything; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
Jeremiah 27:2
Thus hath Jehovah said unto me: Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck;
Jeremiah 28:14
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;
Acts 15:10
Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Labour
Nehemiah 9:36
Behold, we are servants this day, and the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are bondmen in it.
General references
Psalm 18:40
And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.