Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Our necks are under persecution - literally, On our necks we are persecuted - i:e., men tread on our necks (Psalms 66:12; Isaiah 51:23; cf. Joshua 10:24, where Joshua is described as making his captives put their feet upon the necks of the five kings). The extremest oppression. The foe not merely galled the Jews' face, back, and sides, but their neck. A just retribution, as they had been stiff in neck against the yoke of God (2 Chronicles 30:8, 'Harden not your necks ... but yield yourselves unto the Lord,' margin; Nehemiah 9:29; Isaiah 48:4, "Thy neck is an iron sinew").
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Lamentations 5:5
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.