Lamentations 5:13
Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
Noyes Bible
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 the elders were not honored.
14The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased from their music.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:2Take the mill-stones and grind meal; Raise thy veil, lift up thy train; Make bare the leg, wade through the streams!
Matthew 23:4They bind heavy burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders, and will not themselves move them with a finger.
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 →