Lamentations 5:13 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 was made to grind in the Philistine prison-house (Judges 16:21; Job 31:10).

The children fell under ... wood - mere children had to bear burdens of wood so heavy that they sank beneath them.

Lamentations 5:13

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