“Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.”

Lamentations 5:5 (KJV) |

Lamentations 5:5

From Lamentations 5, in the Book of Lamentations (Old Testament).

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3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7

Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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