Jeremiæ 5:5

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Cervicibus nostris minabamur,
lassis non dabatur requies.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ibo igitur ad optimates, et loquar eis : ipsi enim cognoverunt viam Domini, judicium Dei sui : et ecce magis hi simul confregerunt jugum, ruperunt vincula.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Iugum in cervicibus nostris minamur; lassis non datur requies.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

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.