Lamentations 5:13
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.In other versions
The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.
ASV
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
BBE
The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.
DBY
The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
WEB
Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.
YLT
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
ENG
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
WBT
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
BSB
In context
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.