King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:13
“They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.”
Verse 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.
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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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