Lamentations 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Young men are compelled to grind, and boys stagger under loads of wood. More versionsKing 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. |
Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.
Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the handmill and all the firstborn of the livestock.
One day after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
“When you see the donkey of one who hates you struggling under its burden and you would hold back from setting it free, you must help to set it free.
Take the millstones and grind meal; remove 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 injustice, to undo the straps 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 tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.
So the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he ground at the mill in the prison.