Lamentations 5:5
Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 9:36
Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it.
- Deuteronomy 28:48
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.
- Acts 15:10
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?
- Jeremiah 27:8
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.
- Jeremiah 27:2
Thus saith Jehovah to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck;
- Jeremiah 28:14
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.