Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
We are pursued on our necks; we grow weary; rest is not given to 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.
International Standard Version
Our pursuers breathe down our necks; we are weary, but there is no rest for us.
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 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
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
4 We have drunk our water for silver; our wood comes for a price. 5 We are pursued on our necks; we grow weary; rest is not given to us. 6 We have given the hand to Egypt, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:36-37
Behold, we are servants today. And the land that You gave to our fathers to eat its fruit, and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
Deuteronomy 28:48
therefore you shall serve your enemies which Jehovah shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.
Deuteronomy 28:65-66
And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole of your foot have rest. But Jehovah shall give you there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.
Jeremiah 27:2
So says Jehovah to me, Make bonds and yokes for yourself, and put them on your neck.
Jeremiah 27:8
And it shall be, the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish, says Jehovah, with the sword and with the famine, and with the plague, until I have destroyed them by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:11-12
But the nations who bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those I will leave on their own land, says Jehovah. And they shall work it and dwell in it.
Jeremiah 28:14
For so says Jehovah 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 shall serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they intertwine; they rise on my neck. He has made my strength to falter; Jehovah has delivered me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke on you and learn of Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest to your souls.
Acts 15:10
Now therefore why do you tempt God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, a yoke which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?