thus says Adonai to me—“Make straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.
Lamentations 5:5 - Tree of Life Version Our pursuers are at our necks. 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 says Adonai to me—“Make straps and yoke-bars, and put them on your neck.
“Now it will be, that the nation or the kingdom which will not serve the same King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence,” declares Adonai, “until I have destroyed it by his hand.
For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, so that they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They will serve him, and I have also given him the beasts of the field.”
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Babylon’s thick wall will be totally razed and her high gates burned with fire. So the peoples are toiling for nothing, and nations weary themselves for fire.”
My transgressions are bound into a yoke, woven together by His hand. They have come upon my neck and He has sapped my strength. The Lord delivered me over to those I cannot withstand.
Judah is gone into exile under affliction and great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no resting place. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
Our pursuers were swifter than eagles of the sky; they pursued us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.
Therefore, thus said Adonai: “Behold, I am scheming a calamity against this family from which you cannot remove your necks. Then you will not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of distress.”
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and ‘you will find rest for your souls.’
Why then do you put God to the test by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples—which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
you will serve your enemies, whom Adonai will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lacking everything; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.