Lamentations 5:13
Verse 13 of 22. The 5th of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Lamentations 5:13 in the World English Bible
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.Read Lamentations 5:13 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:13
Isa. xlvii. 6, Upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke. (4.) The tenderness of youth was no more considered than the gravity of old age (v. 13): They took the young men to grind at the hand-mills, nay, perhaps at the horse-mills. The young men have carried the grist (so some), have carried the mill, or mill-stones, so others.
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:1–16: An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. (b. c. 588.)
Pray Lamentations 5:13 with someone reading it aloud.
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