Bible verse
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 5.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
KJV
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
ASV
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
ERV
The young men bare the mill, and the children stumbled under the wood.
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