“ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. ”
They took the young men to grind - Or, “The young men” have borne the mill, a menial and laborious task usually performed by slaves (compare Isaiah 47:2 ). The children fell under the wood -...
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under (g) the wood. (g) Their slavery was so great, that they were not able to abide it.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
to grind: i.e. to do women's work. children . young children, youths. fell . staggered. under the wood: i.e. under [the weight or load] of the wood (they were compelled as bond-slaves to car...
I cannot proceed farther now.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. They took the young men to grind - This was the work of female slaves. See the note on Isaiah 47:2 .
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. The young men ... grind. The work of the lowest female slave, grinding at the mill, was laid on young men. So Samson wa...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
They took... — Better, Young men bear the mill: i.e., were not only set to grind the handmill, which was itself the work of a menial slave, commonly of women, but were made to carry the mill itse...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The pr...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
They took the young men to grind ,.... In the mill, which was laborious service; and which persons were sometimes put to, by way of punishment; and was the punishment of servants; see Judges 16:21...
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. Ver. 13. They took the young men to grind, ] i.e., To do any base and abject business. Exodus 11:5 ; Exo 12:29 Frus...
Princes are hanged up by their hand By the hand of their enemies. They took the young men to grind To grind at the mill was the common employment of slaves, Exodus 11:5 . The children fell unde...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Their base, servile condition is expressed by the labour they were put to, which was either grinding in the mill, (an ordinary employment of slaves in those countries,) or carrying millstones; and th...
The young men bore the burden of the mill, And the children stumbled under the wood. The use of hand mills with which people in ancient towns regularly ground their grain was commonplace. But it wa...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Our skin is hot like an oven; the feverishness is...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
The elders have ceased from the gate. The seat of justice overthrown 1. It is a grievous plague unto a people when the seat of justice is overthrown from among them. (1) Reasons. (a) It b...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Exodus 1:11 ; Exodus 11:5 ; Exodus 2:11 ; Exodus 23:5 ; Isaiah 47:2 ; Isaiah 58:6 ; Job 31:10 ; Judges 16:21 ; Matthew 23:4 ; Nehemiah 5:1-5
Fell — Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them.