Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Young men must carry a hand-mill and boys stumble under 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 Rulers were hanged by the hand; the faces of elders were not honored. 13 They took the young men to grind, and the youths stumbled at the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
Cross References
Judges 16:21
And the Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass. And he ground in the prison house.
Exodus 1:11
And they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. And they built treasure cities for Pharaoh, Pithon and Raamses.
Exodus 2:11
And it happened in those days, when Moses was grown, he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
Exodus 11:5
And all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the slave-girl that is behind the mill; also the first-born of beasts.
Exodus 23:5
If you see the ass of him who hates you lying under his burden, and would hold back from helping him, you shall surely help him.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
Job 31:10
then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind meal. Push back your veil, draw up your skirt, uncover your leg, pass over the rivers.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed ones go free, and that you break every yoke?
Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.