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Lamentations 5:5

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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

Lamentations 5:5 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Lamentations 5:5

Theological / Devotional

Our necks. Literally this clause reads, “upon our necks we are chased.” The meaning may be that they were pursued hotly. Some consider it better to understand the reference to be to the cruelty of the slavery forced upon them: “by our necks we are driven.” In Egyptian inscriptions prisoners are shown tied together by the neck.

Given the hand. That is, “submitted to” (see Ezra 10:19; Jer. 50:15; Eze. 17:18).

Egyptians. Judah had also previously been under the Egyptian domination during the earlier part of Jehoiakim’s reign (see p. 347).

Assyrians. See on Ezra 6:22.

Our fathers. See 2 Kings 21:11-15 ; 23:26, 27).

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