Bible verse

Lamentations 5:5

We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

Lamentations 5:5 · BSB

Lamentations 5:5 in context

The verses around it, from Lamentations 5.

1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Read all of Lamentations 5

Lamentations 5:5 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

ERV

Our pursuers are upon our necks: we are weary, and have no rest.

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