Lamentations 5:13
They took the bochurim to grind, 1 and the ne'arim staggered under the wood. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12Sarim (princes) are hanged by their yad; 1 the faces of Zekenim were not respected. 1
14The zekenim have ceased from the sha'ar, 1 the bochurim from their music. 1
Cross References
Exodus 2:11And it came to pass in those days, when Moshe was grown, that he went out unto his achim, and looked on their sevalot: and he spied an Egyptian striking an ish Ivri, one of his achim.
Exodus 23:5If thou see the chamor of him that hateth thee lying under his massa, and wouldest refrain from helping him, thou shalt surely help with him.
Nehemiah 5:1And there was a great outcry of HaAm and of their nashim against their achim the Yehudim.
Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones, and grind meal; 1 uncover thy tzammah (hair, tresses), lift up thy shohvel (train, skirt), 1 bare the thigh, pass over the neharot. 1
Matthew 23:4And they tie up heavy + 23:4 extra-Biblical, Mt 4:4; 15:3,6-9; 22:29 loads, hard to bear, and they place them upon the shoulders of men, but they, with so much as a finger, are not willing to lift the oppressive burdens.
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 →