John Trapp on Lamentations 5:5

Ver. 5. Our necks are under perſecution] For that we would not ſtoop to the ſweet yoke of thine obedience, but held it heavy, now we are under an intolerable yoke of extreme ſlavery.

We labour and have no reſt] Who once troubled Gods holy reſt by bearing burdens and working thereon, Jer. 17.21. In many places amongſt us, Gods Sabbath is made the voyder and dunghil for all refuſe buſineſſes. The Sabbath of the Lord the ſanctified day of his Reſt (ſaith a Reverend writer) is ſhameleſly troubled and diſquieted. B. K[illegible: 1 letter]ng on Jo[illegible: 1 letter]. Lec. 7. The Sabbath was never ſo profaned (ſaith ſuch another Reverend man yet living) with heart, hand, foot, tongue, pen and Preſſe, as of late. And is it not juſt with God that thoſe who would juſtle his religious Reſt out of its right,Mr. Ley his Faſt. Serm. before Parl. April 26. 1643. ſhould be reſtleſſe in their condition? as Lam. 5.5. Thus He. All wicked men acted and agitated by the devil day and night, may well cry out as here, We labour and have no reſt: but they are not ſenſible of this woful ſervitude.