Lamentations 5:5
We weren dryuun bi oure heedis, and reste was not youun to feynt men.
Bible (Wycliffe)
In The King James Version
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
In Context
4We drunken oure watir for monei, we bouyten oure trees for siluer.
6We yauen hond to Egipt, and to Assiriens, that we schulden be fillid with breed.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:48Thou schalt serue thin enemye, whom God schal sende to thee in hungur, and thirst, and nakidnesse, and in pouert of alle thingis; and he schal putte an yrun yok on thi nol, til he al to-breke thee.
Jeremiah 27:8Forsothe the folk and rewme that serueth not Nabugodonosor, kyng of Babiloyne, and whoeuer bowith not his necke vndur the yok of the kyng of Babiloyne, Y schal visite on that folk in swerd, and hungur, and pestilence, seith the Lord, til Y waaste hem in his hond.
Jeremiah 28:14For the Lord of oostis, God of Israel, seith these thingis, Y haue set an yrun yok on the necke of alle these folkis, that thei serue Nabugodonosor, the king of Babiloyne, and thei schulen serue hym; ferthermore and Y yaf to hym the beestis of erthe.
Lamentations 1:14Nun. The yok of my wickidnessis wakide in the hond of hym, tho ben foldid togidere, and put on my necke; my vertu is maad feble; the Lord yaf me in the hond, fro which Y schal not mowe rise.
Matthew 11:29Take ye my yok on you, and lerne ye of me, for Y am mylde and meke in herte; and ye schulen fynde reste to youre soulis.