Lamentations 5:13

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

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Isa...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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.
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 t...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

I cannot proceed farther now.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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, grindin...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

They took the young men to grind] RV 'The young men bare the mill,' work usually done by women and slaves ( Isaiah 47:2 ).
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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, commo...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 i...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 regul...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Ou...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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 overt...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They took the young men to grind, compelling them to perform the work of slaves, and the children fell under the wood, as they dragged the heavy mi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Fell — Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them.

¹³ They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamentations 5:13