Lamentations 5:5 KJV
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:3–7 KJV Chapter Context
3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.