Lamentations 5:13
A Prayer for Restoration
12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. 13Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. 14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
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Berean Standard Bible
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
American Standard Version (1901)
The young men bare the mill;
And the children stumbled under the wood.
Bible in Basic English
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
Douay-Rheims 1899
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
Free Bible Version
Young men are forced to work at hand-mills; boys stagger under bundles of wood.
Geneva Bible 1599
They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
King James (Authorized) Version
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Translation for Translators
They force our young men to grind flour with millstones, and boys stagger while they are forced to carry heavy loads of firewood.
Unlocked Literal Bible
Young men are forced to grind grain with a millstone,
and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
Noah Webster Bible
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
World English Bible
The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.
Young's Literal Translation
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.