Parallel Verses
Webster
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
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 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.
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
Radaph
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
4 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:36-37
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it:
Deuteronomy 28:48
Therefore shalt thou serve thy enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he hath destroyed thee.
Deuteronomy 28:65-66
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Jeremiah 27:2
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make for thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
Jeremiah 27:8
And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Jeremiah 27:11-12
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell in it.
Jeremiah 28:14
For thus saith the LORD 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.
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise.
Lamentations 4:19
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?