Lamentations 5:13

New Century Version

The young men ground grain at the mill, and boys stumbled under loads of wood.

Cross References

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind another man’s grain, and let other men have sexual relations with her.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians made life hard for the Israelites. They put slave masters over them, who forced the Israelites to build the cities Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

Exodus 11:5

Every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die—from the firstborn son of the king, who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl grinding grain. Also the firstborn farm animals will die.

Exodus 2:11

Moses grew and became a man. One day he visited his people and saw that they were forced to work very hard. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew man, one of Moses’ own people.

Exodus 23:5

If you see that your enemy’s donkey has fallen because its load is too heavy, do not leave it there. You must help your enemy get the donkey back on its feet.

Isaiah 47:2

You must use large stones to grind grain into flour. Remove your veil and your nice skirts. Uncover your legs and cross the rivers.

Isaiah 58:6

“I will tell you the kind of fast I want: Free the people you have put in prison unfairly and undo their chains. Free those to whom you are unfair and stop their hard labor.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, and the fathers use the wood to make a fire. The women make the dough for cakes of bread, and they offer them to the Queen Goddess. They pour out drink offerings to other gods to make me angry.

Matthew 23:4

They make strict rules and try to force people to obey them, but they are unwilling to help those who struggle under the weight of their rules.

Judges 16:21

Then the Philistines captured Samson and tore out his eyes. They took him down to Gaza, where they put bronze chains on him and made him grind grain in the prison.