Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
Lamentations 5:5 - American Standard Version 2015 Our pursuers are upon our necks:\par\tab We are weary, and have no rest. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Our necks are under persecution: We labour, and have no rest. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Our pursuers are upon our necks [like a yoke]; we are weary and are allowed no rest. American Standard Version (1901) Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest. Common English Bible Our hunters have been at our necks; we are worn out, but have no rest. Catholic Public Domain Version We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version We were dragged by the necks we were weary and no rest was given us. |
Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
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 Jehovah, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
For thus saith Jehovah 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.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.\par
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand;\par\tab They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail:\par\tab The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude;\par\tab She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest:\par\tab All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens:\par\tab They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah: 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.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and {\b ye shall find rest unto your souls.}
Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies that Jehovah 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.