Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution
Labour
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Bible References
Our necks are under persecution
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions, hath been bound, by his hand - They have intertwined themselves, have come up on my neck, it hath paralysed my strength, - My Lord, hath delivered me, into the hands of those against whom I cannot rise up.
Lamentations 4:19
Swifter are our pursuers, than the eagles of the heavens, - Over the mountains, have they come hotly after us, In the wilderness, have they lain in wait for us.
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies, whom Yahweh will send against thee, with hunger and with thirst and with nakedness, and with want of all things, - and he, will put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he hath destroyed thee.
Jeremiah 27:2
Thus, said Yahweh unto me, Make thee, bonds and bars, and put them upon thine own neck.
Jeremiah 28:14
For, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts God of Israel, - A yoke of iron, have I put upon the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they shall serve him, Moreover also the wild beast of the field, have I given to him.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, - because, meek, am I and lowly, in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls;
Acts 15:10
Now, therefore, why are ye proving God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which, neither our fathers, nor we, have been able to bear.
Labour
Nehemiah 9:36
Lo! we, to-day, are bondmen - even upon the land which thou gavest our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, lo! we, are bondmen;
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Psalm 18:40
As for my foes, thou didst give me their neck, and, as for them who hated me, I destroyed them.