then let my wife cook another man’s food,\par and let other men sleep with her.\par
Lamentations 5:13 - Easy To Read Version The enemy made our young men\par grind grain at the mill.\par Our young men stumbled\par under loads of wood.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They took the young men to grind, And the children fell under the wood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Young men carried millstones, and boys fell [staggering] under [burdens of] wood. American Standard Version (1901) The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. Common English Bible Young men have carried grinding stones; boys have stumbled under loads of wood. Catholic Public Domain Version They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood. |
then let my wife cook another man’s food,\par and let other men sleep with her.\par
The Egyptian people decided to make life hard for the people of Israel. So the Egyptians put slave masters over the people. These masters forced the Israelites to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses for the king. The king used these cities to store grain and other things.
and every firstborn [61] son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, to the firstborn son of the slave girl grinding grain. Even the firstborn animals will die.
Moses grew and became a man. He saw that his own people, the Hebrews, [10] were forced to work very hard. One day Moses saw an Egyptian man beating a Hebrew man.
“If you see an animal that can’t walk because it has too much to carry, you must stop and help that animal. You must help that animal even if it belongs to one of your enemies.
\{Now you must work very hard.\}\par You must get the mill stones\par and grind the grain to make flour.\par Remove your veil and\par take off your fancy dresses.\par \{You must leave your country.\}\par Lift your skirts until\par men can see your legs,\par and cross the rivers. {\cf2\super [410]} \par
“I will tell you the kind of special day I want—a day to make people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off people. I want a day when you make the troubled people free. I want a day when you take the burdens from their shoulders.
This is what the people of Judah are doing: The children gather wood. The fathers use the wood to make a fire. The women make the dough and make cakes of bread to offer to the Queen of Heaven. {\cf2\super [62]} Those people of Judah pour out drink offerings to worship other gods. They do this to make me angry.
They make strict rules that are hard for people to obey. They try to force other people to obey all those rules. But they themselves will not try to follow any of those rules.
The Philistine men captured Samson. They tore out his eyes, and took him down to the city of Gaza. Then they put chains on him to keep him from running away. They put Samson in prison and made him work grinding grain.