Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
New American Standard Bible
And youths
King James Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Holman Bible
boys stumble under loads of wood.
International Standard Version
Our young men must grind grain with a millstone; our youths stumble under the weight of wood.
A Conservative Version
The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.
American Standard Version
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
Amplified
Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And boys fell [staggering] under loads of wood.
Bible in Basic English
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Darby Translation
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
Julia Smith Translation
They took away the chosen ones to grind, and the young men were weak in the wood.
King James 2000
They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood.
Modern King James verseion
They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
they have taken young men's lives from them, and the boys are hanged up upon trees.
NET Bible
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
New Heart English Bible
The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
Webster
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
World English Bible
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
Youngs Literal Translation
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
Themes
Armies » Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished
Captive » Cruelty to » Ravished
Mills » Male captives often employed at
Interlinear
Nasa'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
12 Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured. 13 Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered. 14 Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.
Cross References
Judges 16:21
And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, - and took him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze, and it came to pass that he used to grind in the prison.
Exodus 1:11
So they set over them chiefs of tribute, to the end they might humiliate them with their burdens, - and they built store-cities for Pharaoh, even Pithom and Raamses.
Exodus 2:11
And it came to pass in those days when Moses grew up, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens, - and saw, an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew - of his brethren,
Exodus 11:5
then shall every firstborn in the land of Egypt die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the firstborn of the handmaid who is behind the two millstones, - and every firstborn of beasts;
Exodus 23:5
When thou seest the ass of him that hateth thee sinking down under his burden, and mightest have foreborne to unload him, thou shalt surely help him to unload,
Nehemiah 5:1-5
Then came there to be a great outcry of the people and their wives, - against their brethren the Jews.
Job 31:10
Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
Isaiah 47:2
Take millstones, and grind meal, - Put back thy veil - tuck up thy train Bare the leg, wade through streams:
Isaiah 58:6
Is not, this, the fast that I must ever choose - To unbind the tight cords of lawlessness, To unloose the bands of the yoke, - and To let the crushed go free, and That every yoke, ye tear off?
Matthew 23:4
But they bind together heavy burdens, and lay upon men's shoulders, whereas, they, with their finger, are not willing to move them.