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Lamentations 5:13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Lamentations 5:13 · Webster Bible
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Lamentations 5:13 in other translations
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
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In context
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes were hanged by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 The joy of our heart hath ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
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