Lamentations 5:13
The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked on their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
Exodus 23:5If thou see the donkey of him who hates thee lying under his burden, thou shall refrain leaving him. Thou shall surely release [it] with him.
Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal. Remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Matthew 23:4For they bind heavy burdens and difficult to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they do not want to move them with their finger.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 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;… Read the whole commentary →