Lamentations 5:13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
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Referenced Verses
- Judg 16:21 : 21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- Neh 5:1-5 : 1 ¶ And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. 2 For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live. 3 [Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth. 4 There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, [and that upon] our lands and vineyards. 5 Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
- Job 31:10 : 10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
- Isa 47:2 : 2 Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
- Isa 58:6 : 6 [Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
- Matt 23:4 : 4 ‹For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay› [them] ‹on men's shoulders; but they› [themselves] ‹will not move them with one of their fingers.›
- Exod 1:11 : 11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exod 2:11 : 11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.
- Exod 11:5 : 5 And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that [is] behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.
- Exod 23:5 : 5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
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13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed [that is] full of sheaves.
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10 They cause [him] to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf [from] the hungry;
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21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.
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20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
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7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
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7 Our bones are scattered at the grave's mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
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11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
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2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
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16 Their quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, they [are] all mighty men.
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15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
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63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
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16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
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13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
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17 The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
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25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling [also] with the man of gray hairs.
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8 [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
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16 ¶ Woe to thee, O land, when thy king [is] a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!
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3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.
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4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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6 ¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.
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30 Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD.
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3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.
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5 [They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
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5 Yet now our flesh [is] as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and [some] of our daughters are brought unto bondage [already]: neither [is it] in our power [to redeem them]; for other men have our lands and vineyards.