Lamentations 5:5 · KJV
“Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}”
— Lamentations 5:5
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5 — Context
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
5Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}
6We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:36-37
Behold, we {are} servants this day, and {for} the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we {are} servants in it:
Lamentations 1:14
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, {and} come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into {their} hands, {from whom} I am not able to rise up.
Jeremiah 27:8
And it shall come to pass, {that} the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the 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 27:11-12
But the nations that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.
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.
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.
Deuteronomy 28:65-66
And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
Jeremiah 27:2
Thus saith the LORD to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck, {saith...: or, hath the LORD said}