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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Lamentations 5:5

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Famine;   Patriotism;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Persecution;   Rest-Unrest;   Suffering for Righteousness' S;   Unrest;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Arioch;   Captivity;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
We are closely pursued;we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
Hebrew Names Version
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
King James Version
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
English Standard Version
Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.
New American Standard Bible
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, we are given no rest.
New Century Version
Those who chase after us want to catch us by the neck. We are tired and find no rest.
Amplified Bible
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
World English Bible
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we are wearie, and haue no rest.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
Legacy Standard Bible
Our pursuers are at our necks;We are worn out; there is no rest for us.
Contemporary English Version
We are terribly mistreated; we are worn out and can find no rest.
Complete Jewish Bible
The yoke is on our necks; we are persecuted; we toil to exhaustion but are given no rest.
Darby Translation
Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.
Easy-to-Read Version
We are forced to wear a yoke on our necks. We get tired, and we have no rest.
George Lamsa Translation
Our necks are under yokes; we labor, and have no rest.
Good News Translation
Driven hard like donkeys or camels, we are tired, but are allowed no rest.
Lexham English Bible
We are driven on our necks; we are weary, there is no rest for us.
Literal Translation
We are pursued; we grow weary; rest is not given to us.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Oure neckes are vnder persecucion, we are weery, and haue no rest.
American Standard Version
Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Bible in Basic English
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
To our very necks we are pursued; we labour, and have no rest.
King James Version (1611)
Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.
English Revised Version
Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.
Update Bible Version
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
Webster's Bible Translation
Our necks [are] under persecution: we labor, [and] have no rest.
New English Translation
We are pursued—they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
New King James Version
They pursue at our heels; [fn] We labor and have no rest.
New Living Translation
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.
New Life Bible
Those who come after us are at our necks. We are tired and cannot rest.
New Revised Standard
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.
Douay-Rheims Bible
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
Revised Standard Version
With a yoke on our necks we are hard driven; we are weary, we are given no rest.
Young's Literal Translation
For our neck we have been pursued, We have laboured -- there hath been no rest for us.

Contextual Overview

1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. 3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. 4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price. 5We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria, to get enough food. 7Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment. 8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands. 9We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness. 10Our skin is as hot as an oven because of the burning of famine.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Our necks are under persecution: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted, Lamentations 1:14, Lamentations 4:19, Deuteronomy 28:48, Deuteronomy 28:65, Deuteronomy 28:66, Jeremiah 27:2, Jeremiah 27:8, Jeremiah 27:11, Jeremiah 27:12, Jeremiah 28:14, Matthew 11:29, Acts 15:10

labour: Nehemiah 9:36, Nehemiah 9:37

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:39 - subdued Psalms 107:12 - he brought Jeremiah 13:9 - After Lamentations 3:7 - made Micah 2:3 - necks

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
Genesis 5:7
And after he had become the father of Enosh, Seth lived 807 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
So Seth lived a total of 912 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:10
And after he had become the father of Kenan, Enosh lived 815 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:11
So Enosh lived a total of 905 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:12
When Kenan was 70 years old, he became the father of Mahalaleel.
Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:21
When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Our necks [are] under persecution,.... A yoke of hard servitude and bondage was put upon their necks, as Jarchi interprets it; which they were forced to submit unto: or, "upon our necks we are pursued" s; or, "suffer persecution": which Aben Ezra explains thus, in connection with the Lamentations 5:4; if we carry water or wood upon our necks, the enemy pursues us; that is, to take it away from us. The Targum relates a fable here, that when Nebuchadnezzar saw the ungodly rulers of the children of Israel, who went empty, he ordered to sow up the books of the law, and make bags or wallets of them, and fill them with the stones on the banks of the Euphrates, and loaded them on their necks:

we labour, [and] have no rest; night nor day, nor even on sabbath days; obliged to work continually till they were weary; and, when they were, were not allowed time to rest themselves, like their forefathers in Egypt.

s על צוארנו נרדפנו "super colla nostra persecutionem passi sumus", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin; "vel patimur", Vatablus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our necks ... - i. e. we were pursued so actively that our enemies seemed to be leaning over our necks ready to seize us.

We labor - We were wearied, “there was no rest for us:” being chased incessantly.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Lamentations 5:5. Our necks are under persecution — We feel the yoke of our bondage; we are driven to our work like the bullock, which has a yoke upon his neck.


 
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