NET Bible
"The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor."
— Lamentations 5:13, NET Bible
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.”
“The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood. ”
“The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.”
“They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.”
“The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.”
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.”
Our skin is hot as an oven due to a fever from hunger.
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were mistreated.
The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.
Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!