Lamentations 5:13

A Request For Mercy

¹² Princes are hung up by their hands;
elders are shown no respect.
¹³ Young men labor at millstones;
boys stumble under loads of wood.
¹⁴ The elders have left the city gate,
the young men, their music.

Chosen Ones

Chosen One

Judges 16:21

The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.

Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 2:11

Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

Exodus 11:5

and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

Exodus 23:5

“If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

There was a widespread outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish countrymen.

Job 31:10

let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.

Isaiah 47:2

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

Isaiah 58:6

Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.