Lamentations 5:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ We were dragged by the necks we were weary and no rest was given us.

Lamentations 5:5 Cross References

Jeremiah 27:2

Thus saith the LORD to me: Make thee bands and bars, and put them upon thy neck;

Jeremiah 27:8

And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the 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 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.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labour for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Micah 2:3

Therefore thus saith the LORD: Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks, neither shall ye walk haughtily; for it is an evil time.

Matthew 11:29

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why tempt ye God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore shalt thou serve thine 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 have destroyed thee.