Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood.
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.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.
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 They hang princes by their hand; they do not show respect before elders. 13 Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under the wood. 14 Elders are no longer at the gate, young men no longer play stringed instruments.
Cross References
Judges 16:21
And [the] Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder {in the prison}.
Exodus 1:11
And they appointed commanders of forced labor over them in order to oppress them with their {forced labor}, and they built storage cities for Pharaoh--Pithom and Rameses.
Exodus 2:11
{And then} in those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers, and he saw their {forced labor}, and he saw an Egyptian man striking a Hebrew man, [one of] his brothers.
Exodus 11:5
and every firstborn in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the slave woman who [is] behind the pair of millstones and every firstborn animal.
Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of your enemy lying down under its burden, you will refrain from abandoning him. You will surely arrange [it] with him.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives [against] their Jewish brothers.
Job 31:10
let my wife grind for another, and let other [men] kneel over her,
Isaiah 47:2
Take [the] pair of mill stones and grind flour! Uncover your veil, strip off [your] skirt, uncover [your] thigh, pass through [the] rivers!
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not [the] fast I choose: to release [the] bonds of injustice, to untie [the] ropes of [the] yoke, and to let [the] oppressed go free, and {tear} every yoke to pieces?
Matthew 23:4
And they tie up heavy burdens and put [them] on people's shoulders, but [they] themselves are not willing with their finger to move them