Lamentations 5:13
Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone, 1 and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12Princes are hung up by their own hands, 1 and no honor is shown to the elders. 1
14The elders have left the city gate, 1 and the young men have left their music. 1
Cross References
Exodus 2:11When Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard work. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his own people.
Exodus 23:5If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen to the ground under its load, you must not leave that person. You must surely help him with his donkey.
Nehemiah 5:1Then the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take the millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, 1 strip off your flowing robe, uncover your legs, cross the streams. 1
Matthew 23:4Yes, they bind heavy burdens that are difficult to carry, and then they put them on people's shoulders. But they themselves will not move a finger to carry 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 →