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


In Context

10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.

11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.

12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

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

14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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