Lamentations 5:13
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
World Messianic Bible British
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 hands. The faces of elders were not honoured.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
Exodus 23:5If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him with it.
Nehemiah 5:1Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Isaiah 47:2Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, lift up your skirt, uncover your legs, and wade through the rivers.
Matthew 23:4For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not 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 →