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


In Context

10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

11 Women have been ravished in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.

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

14 The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

15 Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to 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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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