Lamentations 5:13
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
In Context
12The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
14The Elders haue ceased from the gate and the yong men from their songs.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11And in those dayes, when Moses was growen, he went forth vnto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: also he sawe an Egyptian smiting an Ebrewe one of his brethren.
Exodus 23:5If thou see thine enemies asse lying vnder his burden, wilt thou cease to helpe him? thou shalt helpe him vp againe with it.
Nehemiah 5:1Nowe there was a great crie of the people, and of their wiues against their brethren the Iewes.
Isaiah 47:2Take the mill stones, and grinde meale: loose thy lockes: make bare the feete: vncouer the legge, and passe through the floods.
Matthew 23:4For they binde heauie burdens, and grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.
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 →