Lamentations 5:13
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
14The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.
Exodus 23:5If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.
Nehemiah 5:1Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.
Matthew 23:4They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
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 →