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Lamentations 5:13

11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.

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

14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

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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.
DARBY
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
BLB
Young men they have taken to grind, and boys stumble under the wood.
ÅB
Unge menn bar kvernen, og gutter segnet under vedbøren.
OTB
Unge menn arbeider ved kvernsteinene; gutter vakler under byrder av ved.
B1930
Unge menn bar kvernen, og gutter segnet under vedbøren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Judges 16:21

    Then 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.

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  • Matthew 23:4

    They 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.

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  • Isaiah 47:2

    Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

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  • Exodus 23:5

    If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

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  • Nehemiah 5:1–5

    About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

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  • Job 31:10

    then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

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  • Exodus 1:11

    So 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.

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  • Isaiah 58:6

    Isn’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?

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