our necks are under persecution.

Lamentations 1:14
My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they have come upon my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.

Lamentations 4:19
Those who chased us were swifter than the eagles in the sky; they pursued us over the mountains and ambushed us in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 28:48, 65, 66
you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you. . . .

Jeremiah 27:2, 8, 11, 12
"This is what the LORD said to me: Make for yourself a yoke out of leather straps and put it on your neck. . . .

Jeremiah 28:14
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: 'I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.'"

Matthew 11:29
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Acts 15:10
Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?

labour

Nehemiah 9:36, 37
So here we are today, slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and its goodness. And here we are as slaves! . . .