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 knit together, they are come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you shall serve your enemies whom Yahweh shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
Jeremiah 27:2
Thus says Yahweh to me: Make bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
Jeremiah 28:14
For thus says Yahweh of Armies, 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 shall serve him: and I have given him the animals of the field also.
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Acts 15:10
Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Labour
Nehemiah 9:36
"Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
General references
Psalm 18:40
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.