Lamentations 5:13 - Tree of Life Version Young men toil at the millstone. Boys stagger under loads of wood. 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. |
So they set slave masters over them to afflict them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Raamses as storage cities for Pharaoh.
and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt will die—from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the maidservant behind the mill, along with all the firstborn cattle.
Now it happened in those days, after Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He noticed an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
If you see the donkey of the one that hates you lying down under its burden, do not leave it. Rather, you are to release it with him.
Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, uncover the leg, cross the rivers.
“Is not this the fast I choose: to release the bonds of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to tear off every yoke?
The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire and the women knead the dough to make sacrificial cakes to the queen of heaven. Moreover, they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to provoke Me to anger.
They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.
Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he became a grinder in the prison.