Lamentations 5:13
Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdensome labors; and he saw an Egyptian man smiting a Hebrew man, one of his brethren.
Exodus 23:5If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to unload him, [thou must not do so, but] thou shalt surely unload with him.
Nehemiah 5:1And there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take the mill, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, lift up the train, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
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 →