Lamentations 5:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 16:21 : 21 And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.
  • Neh 5:1-5 : 1 And there is a great cry of the people and their wives, concerning their brethren the Jews, 2 yea, there are who are saying, `Our sons, and our daughters, we -- are many, and we receive corn, and eat, and live.' 3 And there are who are saying, `Our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses, we are pledging, and we receive corn for the famine.' 4 And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, `on' our fields, and our vineyards; 5 and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'
  • Job 31:10 : 10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
  • Isa 47:2 : 2 Take millstones, and grind flour, Remove thy veil, draw up the skirt, Uncover the leg, pass over the floods.
  • Isa 58:6 : 6 Is not this the fast that I chose -- To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?
  • Matt 23:4 : 4 for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.
  • Exod 1:11 : 11 And they set over it princes of tribute, so as to afflict it with their burdens, and it buildeth store-cities for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses;
  • Exod 2:11 : 11 And it cometh to pass, in those days, that Moses is grown, and he goeth out unto his brethren, and looketh on their burdens, and seeth a man, an Egyptian, smiting a man, a Hebrew, `one' of his brethren,
  • Exod 11:5 : 5 and every first-born in the land of Egypt hath died, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the maid-servant who `is' behind the millstones, and all the first-born of beasts;
  • Exod 23:5 : 5 when thou seest the ass of him who is hating thee crouching under its burden, then thou hast ceased from leaving `it' to it -- thou dost certainly leave `it' with him.

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  • Lam 5:14-15
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    79%

    14The aged from the gate have ceased, Young men from their song.

    15Ceased hath the joy of our heart, Turned to mourning hath been our dancing.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

    5And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

  • Lam 2:20-21
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    20See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

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  • Ps 148:12
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    12Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

    5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

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    30Even youths are wearied and fatigued, And young men utterly stumble,

  • Eccl 12:3
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    3In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,

  • Nah 3:10
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    10Even she doth become an exile, She hath gone into captivity, Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces At the top of all out-places, And for her honoured ones they cast a lot, And all her great ones have been bound in fetters.

  • Job 29:8
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    8Seen me have youths, and they, been hidden, And the aged have risen -- they stood up.

  • Job 30:12
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    12On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

  • Isa 57:5
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    5Who are inflamed among oaks, under every green tree, Slaughtering the children in valleys, Under clefts of the rocks.

  • Isa 3:12
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    12My people -- its exactors `are' sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

  • Ps 74:5-6
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    5He is known as one bringing in on high Against a thicket of wood -- axes.

    6And now, its carvings together With axe and hatchet they break down,

  • Amos 2:13
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    13Lo, I am pressing you under, As the full cart doth press for itself a sheaf.

  • Job 24:10-11
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    10Naked, they have gone without clothing, And hungry -- have taken away a sheaf.

    11Between their walls they make oil, Wine-presses they have trodden, and thirst.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,

  • Isa 51:20
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    20Thy sons have been wrapt up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox `in' a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

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    7As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

  • Isa 3:2
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    2Hero and man of war, judge and prophet, And diviner and elder,

  • Jer 5:16
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    16Its quiver `is' as an open sepulchre, All of them -- mighty ones.

  • Lam 2:10
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    10Sit on the earth -- keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.

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    15What -- to you? ye bruise My people, And the faces of the poor ye grind.' An affirmation of the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, And Jehovah saith:

  • Judg 6:30
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    30And the men of the city say unto Joash, `Bring out thy son, and he dieth, because he hath broken down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the shrine which `is' by it.'

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    63His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.

  • Isa 13:16
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    16And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, Spoiled are their houses, and their wives lain with.

  • Amos 8:13
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    13In that day faint do the fair virgins, And the young men, with thirst.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17Rotted have scattered things under their clods, Desolated have been storehouses, Broken down have been granaries, For withered hath the corn.

  • Deut 32:25
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    25Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers -- fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.

  • Job 30:8
    68%

    8Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

  • Jer 31:29
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    29In those days they do not say any more: Fathers have eaten unripe fruit, And the sons' teeth are blunted.

  • Eccl 10:16
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    16Wo to thee, O land, when thy king `is' a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

  • Jer 11:22
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    22Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: `Lo, I am seeing after them, The chosen ones die by sword, Their sons and their daughters die by famine,

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    3Over my back have ploughers ploughed, They have made long their furrows.

  • Lam 5:4
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    4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.

  • Jer 50:30
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    30Therefore fall do her young men in her broad places, And all her men of war are cut off in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Ezek 30:17
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    17The youths of Aven and Pi-Beseth by sword do fall, And these into captivity do go.

  • Jer 14:3
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    3And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back -- their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.

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    5The satiated for bread hired themselves, And the hungry have ceased. While the barren hath borne seven, And she abounding with sons hath languished.

  • Neh 5:5
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    5and now, as the flesh of our brethren `is' our flesh, as their sons `are' our sons, and lo, we are subduing our sons and our daughters for servants, and there are of our daughters subdued, and our hand hath no might, and our fields and our vineyards `are' to others.'