Lamentations 5:13 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹³ Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of 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.

Lamentations 5:13 Cross References

Job 31:10

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

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-amses.

Exodus 11:5

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.

Exodus 2:11

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.

Exodus 23:5

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.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones and grind meal, put off your veil, strip off your robe, uncover your legs, pass through the rivers.

Isaiah 58:6

“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?

Jeremiah 7:18

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.

Matthew 23:4

They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

Judges 16:21

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.