Lamentations 5:13
“They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.”
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Lamentations 5:13 Context
11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah. 12Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured. 13They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood. 14The Elders haue ceased from the gate, the young men from their musicke. 15The ioy of our heart is ceased, our daunce is turned into mourning.
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They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
- King James Version
Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbled under {loads} of wood.
- New American Standard Version (1995)