Lamentations 5:5

Lamentations 5:5 in other versions

• New International Version (NIV)Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Our pursuers are at our necks; we are weary; we are given no rest.
• New King James Version (NKJV)They pursue at our heels; We labor and have no rest.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are exhausted but are given no rest.

Context of Lamentations 5:5

3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our 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.

Lamentations 5:5 word by word

עַ֤ל צַוָּארֵ֙נוּ֙ נִרְדָּ֔פְנוּ יָגַ֖עְנוּ וְלֹ֥א הֽוּנַֽח לָֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear

• Our necksצַוָּארtsavvâ'r tsavvâr tsavvârôn tsavvâ'râh · neckH6677
• under persecutionרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• we labourיָגֵעַyâga‛ · be weary/toilH3021
• have no restנוּחַnûach · to restH5117

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:5

• Lamentations 1:14The 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.
• Lamentations 4:19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
• Deuteronomy 28:48Therefore 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.
• Jeremiah 27:2Thus saith the Lord to me; Make thee bonds and yokes, and put them upon thy neck,
• Jeremiah 28:14For 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.
• Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Nehemiah 9:36Behold, 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:

Commentaries on Lamentations 5:5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Our 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.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Our 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Literally, "On our necks we are persecuted"; that is, Men tread on our necks (Psa 66:12; Is 51:23; compare Jos 10:24). The extremest oppression. The foe not merely galled the Jews face, back, and sides, but their neck. A just retribution, as they had been stiff in neck against the yoke of God (2Ch 30:8, Margin; Ne 9:29; Is 48:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 5:5

• Famine
• Patriotism

In the dictionaries

• Crown
• Persecution
• Acrostic
• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew

Commentaries on Lamentations 5

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings