Lamentations 5:13
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
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the young

Exodus 11:5
and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

Judges 16:21
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

Job 31:10
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

Isaiah 47:2
Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, wade through the streams.

fell

Exodus 1:11
So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus 2:11
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Exodus 23:5
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

Nehemiah 5:1-5
About this time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. . . .

Isaiah 58:6
Is not the fast I have chosen to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and tear off every yoke?

Matthew 23:4
They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

King James Bible
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Young men labor at millstones; 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.

NET Bible
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
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