Lamentations 5:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Young men are compelled to grind, and boys stagger under loads of wood.

Cross References

Job 31:10

then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

Exodus 1:11

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities, Pithom and Rameses, for Pharaoh.

Exodus 11:5

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.

Exodus 2:11

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.

Exodus 23:5

“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.

Isaiah 47:2

Take the millstones and grind meal; remove 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 injustice, to undo the straps 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 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.

Judges 16:21

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.