Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.
New American Standard Bible
We are worn out, there is
King James Version
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Holman Bible
we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
A Conservative Version
Our pursuers are upon 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.
Amplified
Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Bible in Basic English
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Darby Translation
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
Julia Smith Translation
Upon our necks were we pursued: we labored and no rest to us.
King James 2000
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.
Modern King James verseion
We are pursued on our necks; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Our necks are under persecution, we are weary, and have no rest.
NET Bible
We are pursued -- they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
New Heart English Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
The Emphasized Bible
Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
Webster
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
World English Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Youngs Literal Translation
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
Themes
Church » Enemies of » General references to
Jews, the » All other nations » Persecuted
Persecution » General references to
Suffering for righteousness' sake » Persecution » General references to
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
4 We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price. 5 Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us. 6 We made a deal with the Egyptians and the Assyrians for the price of food.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:36-37
"Look! Today we are your servants, along with the land that you gave to our ancestors, so they could enjoy its fruit and its value behold, in it we are your servants!
Deuteronomy 28:48
you'll serve your enemies whom the LORD your God will send against you. You will serve in famine and in drought, in nakedness, and in lack of everything. They'll set a yoke of iron upon your neck until they have exterminated you.
Deuteronomy 28:65-66
Among those nations you'll have no rest. There'll be no resting place for the soles of your feet. Instead, the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a despairing spirit.
Jeremiah 27:2
this is what the LORD says to me: "Make restraints and yokes for yourself and put them on your neck.
Jeremiah 27:8
If a nation and kingdom does not serve him King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, I'll judge that nation with the sword, with famine, and with plague," declares the LORD, "until I've completely destroyed it by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:11-12
But I'll let the nation that brings its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serves him remain in its own land," declares the LORD, "and they'll work it and remain in it."'"
Jeremiah 28:14
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "I've put an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. They'll serve him, and I've even given the wild animals to him."'"
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my sins was bound on, fastened together by his hand. They settled on my neck; he caused my strength to fail. The LORD placed me in the power of those I cannot resist.
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than soaring eagles; they pursued us over the mountains, lying in wait for us in the wilderness.
Matthew 11:29
Place my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest for your souls,
Acts 15:10
So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?