Lamentations 5:13
Young men are forced to work at hand-mills; boys stagger under bundles of wood.
Free Bible Version
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; they show elders no respect.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11Later, when Moses had grown up, he went to visit his people, the Hebrews. He saw them doing hard labor. He also saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus 23:5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you that has fallen under its load, don't just leave it there. You must stop and help.
Nehemiah 5:1Around this time some people and their wives started a tremendous argument with the other Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Go to work grinding flour with millstones. Remove your veil. Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, wade through rivers.
Matthew 23:4They tie up heavy burdens, and place them on people's shoulders, but they themselves don't lift a finger to help 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 →