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Lamentations 5:13

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Context

v.12Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

v.13This passage

v.14The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 23:4

    Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

  • Exodus 11:5

    and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill; and all the first-born of cattle.

  • Isaiah 47:2

    Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

  • Isaiah 58:6

    Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

  • Exodus 23:5

    If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

  • Job 31:10

    Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.