Lamentations 5:13
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus 23:5If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
Nehemiah 5:1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
Matthew 23:4They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to 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 →