Lamentations 5:13
The young men grind at the mill;the boys stagger under loads of wood.
New Heart English 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 by their hands;elders were shown no respect.
14The elders have gone from the gate,the young men from their music.
Cross References
Exodus 2:11It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at 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, do not 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 meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass 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 →