Lamentations 5:5

A Request For Mercy

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We have to pay for our drinking water;
Our wood comes to us at a price.
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Our pursuers are at our necks;
We are worn out, there is no rest for us.
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We have given the hand [as a pledge of fidelity and submission] to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

For Us

No

Nehemiah 9:36-37

“Behold, we are slaves today,
And as for the land which You gave our fathers, to eat of its fruit and its goodness,
Behold, we are slaves in it.

Deuteronomy 28:48

you will therefore serve your enemies whom the Lord sends against you, in hunger and in thirst, in nakedness and in lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke [of slavery] on your neck until He has destroyed you.

Deuteronomy 28:65-66

Among those nations you will find no peace (rest), and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Jeremiah 27:2

Thus says the Lord to me, “Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

Jeremiah 27:8

“But any nation or kingdom that will not serve this same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish,” says the Lord, “with the sword, with famine and with pestilence (virulent disease), until I have destroyed it by Nebuchadnezzar’s hand.

Jeremiah 27:11-12

But the nation which will bow its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, that nation I will let remain on its own land,” says the Lord, “to cultivate it and live in it.”’”

Jeremiah 28:14

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “I have put the iron yoke [of servitude] on the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they will serve him. And I have even given him the beasts of the field.”’”

Lamentations 1:14

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound;
By His hand they are knit and woven together.
They have come upon my neck.
He has made my strength fail;
The Lord has put me into the hand
Of those against whom I cannot stand.

Lamentations 4:19

Our pursuers were swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They pursued us on the mountains,
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.

Matthew 11:29

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple], for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest (renewal, blessed quiet) for your souls.

Acts 15:10

Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to endure?