Lamentations 5:5
King James VersionSource notes
“Our necks under persecution: we labour, have no rest.”
Context
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks under persecution: we labour, have no rest.
6We have given the hand the Egyptians, the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: none that doth deliver out of their hand.