Lamentations 5:13

In 11 translations

BSB

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

KJV

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

WEB

The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

ASV

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

LSV

They have taken young men to grind, || And youths have stumbled with wood.

YLT

Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

DBY

The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

DRC

They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

GNV

They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.

JPS

The young men have borne the mill, and the children have stumbled under the wood.

LXXE

The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

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Original-language editions

WLC

בַּחוּרִים֙ טְח֣וֹן נָשָׂ֔אוּ וּנְעָרִ֖ים בָּעֵ֥ץ כָּשָֽׁלוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐκλεκτοὶ κλαυθμὸν ἀνέλαβον, καὶ νεανίσκοι ἐν ξύλῳ ἠσθένησαν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Judges 16:21Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
• Matthew 23:4They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
• Exodus 11:5and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
• Exodus 23:5If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
• Nehemiah 5:1–5About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.”…
• Isaiah 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
• Isaiah 47:2Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
• Exodus 2:11One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
• Exodus 1:11So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
• Job 31:10then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

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