Parallel Verses
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.
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 put princes to death by hanging. The elders are not honored.
13
And youths
Cross References
Judges 16:21
The Philistines captured him and put his eyes out. They took him to Gaza, chained him with copper chains. They put him to work grinding at the mill in the prison.
Exodus 1:11
So the Egyptians put slave masters over them in order to oppress them through forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply (storage) cities for Pharaoh.
Exodus 2:11
After Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people (his brothers) were hard at work. He saw an Egyptian beating one of them.
Exodus 11:5
and wherever he goes, the first-born son in every family will die. Your own son will die. So will the son of the lowest slave woman. Even the first-born males of cattle will die.
Exodus 23:5
If your enemy's donkey falls under its load, help him get the donkey to its feet again. Do not just walk away.
Nehemiah 5:1-5
Then there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their countrymen the Jews.
Job 31:10
then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones and grind meal. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt; uncover the leg and cross the rivers.
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?
Matthew 23:4
They chain heavy burdens on your shoulders. Yet they are unwilling to lift even a finger to carry these same burdens.