Lamentations 5:13 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹³ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ They took the young men to grind, And the children fell under the wood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Common English Bible

¹³ Young men have carried grinding stones; boys have stumbled under loads of wood.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

Lamentations 5:13 Cross References

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raam´ses.

Exodus 11:5

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

Exodus 2:11

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Exodus 23:5

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Matthew 23:4

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Judges 16:21

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.