Lamentations 5:13
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
14The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11In those days after Moses was grown up, he went out to his brethren: and saw their affliction, and an Egyptian striking one of the Hebrews his brethren.
Exodus 23:5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lie underneath his burden, thou shalt not pass by, but shalt lift him up with him.
Nehemiah 5:1Now there was a great cry of the people, and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.
Matthew 23:4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move 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 →