then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Lamentations 5:13 - Revised Standard Version Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They took the young men to grind, And the children fell under the wood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood. American Standard Version (1901) The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. Common English Bible Young men have carried grinding stones; boys have stumbled under loads of wood. Catholic Public Domain Version They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. |
then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.
and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maidservant who is behind the mill; and all the first-born of the cattle.
One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
If you see the ass of one who hates you lying under its burden, you shall refrain from leaving him with it, you shall help him to lift it up.
Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.
“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.