Lamentations 5:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.”
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BSBPD
“Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 5:13 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- Nehemiah 5:1About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.
- Job 31:10then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
- Isaiah 47:2Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- 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?
- 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.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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