13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.


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 are hanged up 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 is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:13They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:13The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.