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Text -- Lamentations 5:13 (NET)

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5:13 The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Lam 5:13 - -- Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them.

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

JFB: Lam 5:13 - -- The work of the lowest female slave was laid on young men (Jdg 16:21; Job 31:10).

The work of the lowest female slave was laid on young men (Jdg 16:21; Job 31:10).

JFB: Lam 5:13 - -- Mere children had to bear burdens of wood so heavy that they sank beneath them.

Mere children had to bear burdens of wood so heavy that they sank beneath them.

Clarke: Lam 5:13 - -- They took the young men to grind - This was the work of female slaves. See the note on Isa 47:2.

They took the young men to grind - This was the work of female slaves. See the note on Isa 47:2.

Calvin: Lam 5:13 - -- I cannot proceed farther now.

I cannot proceed farther now.

TSK: Lam 5:13 - -- the young : Exo 11:5; Jdg 16:21; Job 31:10; Isa 47:2 fell : Exo 1:11, Exo 2:11, Exo 23:5; Neh 5:1-5; Isa 58:6; Mat 23:4

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Lam 5:13 - -- 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...

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 47:2).

The children fell under the wood - Or, lads have stumbled under burdens of wood. By lads are meant youths up to the age of military service; another form of menial labor.

Poole: Lam 5:13 - -- 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 ...

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 the younger children in carrying great burdens of wood, under which they fell, as being not able to stand under the burdens laid upon them.

Haydock: Lam 5:13 - -- Indecently, like the Sodomites. Hebrew, "they made the young men grind" at the mill, in their prison, (Haydock) as Samson (Judges xvi. 21.) and Sede...

Indecently, like the Sodomites. Hebrew, "they made the young men grind" at the mill, in their prison, (Haydock) as Samson (Judges xvi. 21.) and Sedecias (according to the Septuagint, chap. lii. 11.) were forced to do. To grind is often used in a bad sense; but it is not necessary to adopt it here. (Calmet) (Amama) ---

The Chaldeans treated their captives without pity or shame. (Haydock) ---

Wood; burdens, or stumbling-blocks, unless they were crucified; or, "roasted," if we admit a small alteration in the Hebrew, chap. iv. 10. (Calmet) ---

They were forced to grind naked, and were beaten with staves. (Worthington)

Gill: Lam 5:13 - -- 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...

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 Jdg 16:21. Some render it, "the young men bore the grist" x; carried the corn, the meal ground, from place to place. The Targum is,

"the young men carried the millstones;''

and so Jarchi, they put millstones upon their shoulders, and burdens so as to weary them. Ben Melech, from their Rabbins, relates, that there were no millstones in Babylon; wherefore the Chaldeans put them upon the young men of Israel, to carry them thither. The Vulgate Latin version is,

"they abused the young men in an unchaste manner;''

suggesting something obscene intended by grinding; see Job 31:10; but the context will not admit of such a sense:

and the children fell under the wood; such loads of wood were laid upon them, that they could not bear them, but fell under them. Aben Ezra understands it of moving the wood of the mill, of turning the wooden handle of it; or the wooden post, the rider or runner, by which the upper millstone was turned: this their strength was not equal to, and so failed. The Targum interprets it of a wooden gibbet, or gallows; some wooden engine seems to be had in view, used as a punishment, which was put upon their necks, something like a pillory; which they were not able to stand up under, but fell.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Lam 5:13 Heb “boys trip over wood.” This phrase makes little sense. The translation adopts D. R. Hillers’ suggestion (Lamentations [AB], 99) ...

Geneva Bible: Lam 5:13 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.

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Lam 5:1-22 - --1 A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

MHCC: Lam 5:1-16 - --Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, ...

Matthew Henry: Lam 5:1-16 - -- Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do s...

Keil-Delitzsch: Lam 5:8-16 - -- Further description of the miserable condition under which the congregation languishes. Lam 5:8. "Servants rule over us," etc. עבדים are not t...

Constable: Lam 5:1-22 - --V. The response of the godly (the fifth lament) ch. 5 This poem, like the one in chapter 3, contains verses of o...

Constable: Lam 5:1-18 - --A. A plea for remembrance 5:1-18 5:1 Jeremiah called on Yahweh to remember the calamity that had befallen His people and to consider the reproach in w...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Lamentations (Book Introduction) In the Hebrew Bible these Elegies of Jeremiah, five in number, are placed among the Chetuvim, or "Holy Writings" ("the Psalms," &c., Luk 24:44), betwe...

JFB: Lamentations (Outline) THE SAD CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM, THE HOPE OF RESTORATION, AND THE RETRIBUTION AWAITING IDUMEA FOR JOINING BABYLON AGAINST JUDEA. (Lam. 4:1-22) EPIPHONEM...

TSK: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Lam 5:1, A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

Poole: Lamentations (Book Introduction) LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH THE ARGUMENT This book in Greek, Latin, and English hath its name from the subject matter of it, which is lamentation; s...

Poole: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 5 A humble prayer, presenting to the Lord their great misery, Lam 5:1-15 , confessing their sins, Lam 5:16-18 , imploring deliverance, Lam ...

MHCC: Lamentations (Book Introduction) It is evident that Jeremiah was the author of the Lamentations which bear his name. The book was not written till after the destruction of Jerusalem b...

MHCC: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour.

Matthew Henry: Lamentations (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Lamentations of Jeremiah Since what Solomon says, though contrary to the common opinion of the worl...

Matthew Henry: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter, though it has the same number of verses with the 1st, 2nd, and 4th, is not alphabetical, as they were, but the scope of it is the sam...

Constable: Lamentations (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and Position The English title of this book comes from the Talmud (...

Constable: Lamentations (Outline) Outline I. The destruction and misery of Jerusalem (the first lament) ch. 1 A. An observer's...

Constable: Lamentations Lamentations Bibliography Archer, Gleason L., Jr. A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Revised ed. Chicago: ...

Haydock: Lamentations (Book Introduction) THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS. INTRODUCTION. In these Jeremias laments in a most pathetic manner the miseries of his people, and the destructio...

Gill: Lamentations (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS This book very properly follows the prophecy of Jeremiah, not only because wrote by him, but because of the subject ma...

Gill: Lamentations 5 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO LAMENTATIONS 5 In this chapter are reckoned up the various calamities and distresses of the Jews in Babylon, which the Lord is desi...

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