Lamentations
King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:5
“Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.”
King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:5 Context
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 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. 8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
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Other Translations
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
- Basic English Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
- Darby Bible
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
- Webster's Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
- World English Bible
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
- Youngs Literal Bible
To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
- Basic English Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
- Darby Bible
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
- Webster's Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
- World English Bible
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.
- Youngs Literal Bible
To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Lamentations 5:5
5:3 We - We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.
5:4 Sold - Whereas at other times there was abundance of wood and water throughout Judea.
5:6 We - The ten tribes were all carried captives into Assyria, and many of the kingdom of Judah fled into Egypt. Giving the hand may signify labouring for them: or, yielding up themselves to their power.
5:7 Their iniquities - The punishment of them.