Lamentations 5:13 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:13

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Judges 16:21
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
Exodus 2:11
And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
Exodus 23:5
If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

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Nay, they made the little children carry their wood home for fuel, and laid such burdens upon them that they fell down under them, so very inhuman were these cruel taskmasters! An end was put to all their gladness, and their joy was quite extinguished (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

young men . . . grind--The work of the lowest female slave was laid on young men (Jud 16:21; Job 31:10). children fell under . . . wood--Mere children had to bear burdens of wood so heavy that they sank beneath them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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