Lamentations 5:13
They haue taken young men to grinde, and the boyes fainted vnder the burthens of wood.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men.
14The elders sit no more vnder the gates, and the young men vse no more playing of musicke.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:2Bryng foorth the querne and grinde meale, vntrusse thy broydred heere, put of thy shoes, make bare thy knees, and wade thorowe the water riuers.
Matthew 23:4Yea, they bynde together heauy burthens, and greeuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders: but they them selues wyll not moue them with [one] of their fingers.
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 →