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Lamentations 5:5 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 5 · King James Version
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.Lamentations 5:5 · King James Version
Lamentations 5:5 in context
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.
Key words (Strong's)
- persecutionrâdaphto run after (usually with hostile intentH7291 →
- labouryâgaʻproperly, to gaspH3021 →
- neckstsavvâʼrthe back of the neckH6677 →
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