Lamentations 5:13
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
14The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11In those days, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers. And he saw their affliction and an Egyptian man striking a certain one of the Hebrews, his brothers.
Exodus 23:5If you see the donkey of one who hates you, fallen under its burden, you shall not pass by without lifting it up with him.
Nehemiah 5:1And there occurred a great outcry of the people and their wives against their brothers, the Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take a millstone and grind meal. Uncover your shame, bare your shoulder, reveal your legs, cross the streams.
Matthew 23:4For they bind up heavy and unbearable burdens, and they impose them on men’s shoulders. But they are not willing to move them with even a finger of their own.
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 →