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Lamentations 5:13

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

Lamentations 5:13 · American Standard Version

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Lamentations 5:13 in other translations

KJV King James Version

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

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

WEB World English Bible

The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

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In context

10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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

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

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

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

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