Lamentations 5:13

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Young men toil at the grinding millstones, and boys stumble under heavy loads of wood.

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  • Judg 16:21 : 21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 There arose a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. 2 Some were saying, 'We, along with our sons and daughters, are numerous. Let us get grain that we may eat and stay alive.' 3 Others were saying, 'We have had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and houses to get grain during the famine.' 4 Still others were saying, 'We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.' 5 'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'
  • Job 31:10 : 10 then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.
  • Isa 47:2 : 2 Take a millstone and grind flour; remove your veil, strip off your train, uncover your legs, and cross the rivers.
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loosen the chains of injustice, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to break every yoke?
  • Matt 23:4 : 4 They tie up heavy and unbearable burdens, and place them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.
  • Exod 1:11 : 11 So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with forced labor. They built supply cities for Pharaoh—Pithom and Rameses.
  • Exod 2:11 : 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and saw their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.
  • Exod 11:5 : 5 Every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the millstones, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
  • Exod 23:5 : 5 If you see the donkey of someone who hates you collapsing under its load, and you would refrain from helping, you must surely help with it.

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