Lamentations 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version

⁵ With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.

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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.

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 Tagairtí Cros

Jeremiah 27:2

Thus the Lord said to me: Make yourself a yoke of straps and bars, and put them on your neck.

Jeremiah 27:8

But if any nation or kingdom will not serve this king, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will punish that nation with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, says the Lord, until I have completed its destruction by his hand.

Jeremiah 28:14

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations so that they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and they shall indeed serve him; I have even given him the wild animals.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.

Lamentations 1:14

My transgressions were bound into a yoke; by his hand they were fastened together; they weigh on my neck, sapping my strength; the Lord handed me over to those whom I cannot withstand.

Lamentations 1:3

Judah has gone into exile with suffering and hard servitude; she lives now among the nations, and finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles in the heavens; they chased us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

Micah 2:3

Therefore thus says the Lord: Now, I am devising against this family an evil from which you cannot remove your necks; and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be an evil time.

Matthew 11:29

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.

Acts 15:10

Now therefore why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Deuteronomy 28:48

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and lack of everything. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.