Lamentations 5:13 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.”
Lamentations 5:13 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 5:13 in 6 Bible Translations
Read Lamentations 5:13 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
Lamentations 5:13 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.”
Lamentations 5:13 — World English Bible
Lamentations 5:13 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.”
Lamentations 5:13 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 5:13 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.”
Lamentations 5:13 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 5:13 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood. ”
Lamentations 5:13 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 5:13 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“They tooke the yong men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.”
Lamentations 5:13 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 5:13 in Context — Lamentations 5
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
What Does Lamentations 5:13 Mean?
Lamentations 5:13 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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