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Lamentations 5:5
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We are closely pursued;we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, we are given no rest.
Those who chase after us want to catch us by the neck. We are tired and find no rest.
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Our pursuers are at our necks;We are worn out; there is no rest for us.
We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
We are terribly mistreated; we are worn out and can find no rest.
The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; we toil to exhaustion but are given no rest.
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
We are forced to wear a yoke on our necks. We get tired, and we have no rest.
Our necks are under yokes; we labor, and have no rest.
Driven hard like donkeys or camels, we are tired, but are allowed no rest.
We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.
We are pursued; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.
Oure neckes are vnder persecucion, we are weery, and haue no rest.
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.
We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
They pursue at our heels; [fn] We labor and have no rest.
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.
Those who come after us are at our necks. We are tired and cannot rest.
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
Contextual Overview
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Our necks are under persecution: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted, Lamentations 1:14, Lamentations 4:19, Deuteronomy 28:48, Deuteronomy 28:65, Deuteronomy 28:66, Jeremiah 27:2, Jeremiah 27:8, Jeremiah 27:11, Jeremiah 27:12, Jeremiah 28:14, Matthew 11:29, Acts 15:10
labour: Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37
Reciprocal: Psalms 18:39 - subdued Psalms 107:12 - he brought Jeremiah 13:9 - After Lamentations 3:7 - made Micah 2:3 - necks
Cross-References
in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
and Seth lived after he begat Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.
and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:
and all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years: and he died.
And Kenan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalalel:
and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years: and he died.
And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:
and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Our necks [are] under persecution,.... A yoke of hard servitude and bondage was put upon their necks, as Jarchi interprets it; which they were forced to submit unto: or, "upon our necks we are pursued" s; or, "suffer persecution": which Aben Ezra explains thus, in connection with the Lamentations 5:4; if we carry water or wood upon our necks, the enemy pursues us; that is, to take it away from us. The Targum relates a fable here, that when Nebuchadnezzar saw the ungodly rulers of the children of Israel, who went empty, he ordered to sow up the books of the law, and make bags or wallets of them, and fill them with the stones on the banks of the Euphrates, and loaded them on their necks:
we labour, [and] have no rest; night nor day, nor even on sabbath days; obliged to work continually till they were weary; and, when they were, were not allowed time to rest themselves, like their forefathers in Egypt.
s על צוארנו נרדפנו "super colla nostra persecutionem passi sumus", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin; "vel patimur", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Our necks ... - i. e. we were pursued so actively that our enemies seemed to be leaning over our necks ready to seize us.
We labor - We were wearied, “there was no rest for us:” being chased incessantly.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Lamentations 5:5. Our necks are under persecution — We feel the yoke of our bondage; we are driven to our work like the bullock, which has a yoke upon his neck.
