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Lamentations 5:13

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

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Lamentations 5:13 in other translations

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

Lamentations 5:13 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:13 in context

  1. 11They ravished the women in Zion,
    the virgins in the cities of Judah.
  2. 12Princes were hanged up by their hands.
    The faces of elders were not honored.
  3. 13The young men carry millstones.
    The children stumbled under loads of wood.
  4. 14The elders have ceased from the gate,
    and the young men from their music.
  5. 15The joy of our heart has ceased.
    Our dance is turned into mourning.