Lamentations 5:5 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁵ 3 They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Our necks are under persecution: We labour, and have no rest.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

Common English Bible

⁵ Our hunters have been at our necks; we are worn out, but have no rest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.

Lamentations 5:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 27:2

0 For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and east you out, and to make you perish.

Jeremiah 27:8

6 I spoke also to the priests, and to this people, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Hearken not to the words of your prophets, that prophesy to you, saying: Behold the vessels of the Lord shall now in a short time be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Jeremiah 28:14

Build ye houses, and dwell in them: and plant orchards, and eat the fruit of them.

Jeremiah 51:58

And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the Lord, according to all that Joakim had done.

Lamentations 1:14

2 Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.

Lamentations 1:3

1 Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile.

Lamentations 4:19

We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.

Micah 2:3

1 Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.

Matthew 11:29

And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

Acts 15:10

8 To the Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world.

Deuteronomy 28:48

3 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thy womb, and the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in the distress and extremity wherewith thy enemy shall oppress thee.