Lamentations 5:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

On our necks we are pursued; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.

Cross References

Jeremiah 27:2

So says Jehovah to me, Make bonds and yokes for yourself, and put them on your neck.

Jeremiah 27:8

And it shall be, the nation and kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck in the yoke of the king of Babylon, I will call to account that nation, a statement of Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the plague, until I have destroyed them by his hand.

Jeremiah 28:14

For so says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And they shall serve him. And I have given him the beasts of the field also.

Jeremiah 51:58

So says Jehovah of Hosts, Baring, the broad walls of Babylon shall be laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. And the peoples shall labor as for vanity, and a people as for fire; and they shall be weary.

Lamentations 1:14

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand, they intertwine, they rise on my neck. He caused my strength to stumble. The Lord gave me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah went captive from affliction, and from great slavery. She dwells among the nations; she finds no rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her between the straits.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they hotly pursued us on the mountains; they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Micah 2:3

So thus says Jehovah: Behold, I am plotting an evil against this family, from which you shall not remove your necks from there; and you shall not go exalted, for it is an evil time.

Matthew 11:29

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, “and you will find rest to your souls.” Jer. 6:16

Acts 15:10

Now, therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we had strength to bear?

Deuteronomy 28:48

and you shall serve your enemies whom Jehovah shall send on you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in lack of all things. And He shall put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.