Lamentations 5:13

Contemporary English Version 1995

Young men are forced to do the work of slaves; boys must carry heavy loads of wood.

Cross References

Judges 16:21

The Philistines grabbed Samson and poked out his eyes. They took him to the prison in Gaza and chained him up. Then they put him to work, turning a millstone to grind grain.

Matthew 23:4

They pile heavy burdens on people's shoulders and won't lift a finger to help.

Isaiah 58:6

I'll tell you what it really means to worship the Lord. Remove the chains of prisoners who are bound unjustly. Free those who are abused!

Isaiah 47:2

Start grinding grain! Take off your veil. Strip off your fancy clothes and wade across rivers.

Job 31:10

then let some stranger steal my wife from me.

Exodus 23:5

If a donkey is overloaded and falls down, you must do what you can to help, even if it belongs to someone who doesn't like you.

Exodus 11:5

and wherever he goes, the first-born son in every family will die. Your own son will die, and so will the son of the lowest slave woman. Even the first-born males of your cattle will die.

Exodus 2:11

After Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were hard at work, and he saw an Egyptian beating one of them.

Exodus 1:11

The Egyptians put slave bosses in charge of the people of Israel and tried to wear them down with hard work. Those bosses forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses, where the king could store his supplies.

Jeremiah 7:18

Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.