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 mill-stones with which the grinding was done. The Jewish young men and boys were required to do the lowest and most menial services.
Verse 13. _THEY TOOK THE YOUNG MEN TO GRIND_] This was the work of female slaves. Isaiah 47:2....
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 - Or, lads...
CHAPTER 5 THE PRAYER OF HOPE The lamentations end with a prayer: “Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us; consider and behold our reproach.” It is the prayer of confession and of hope, which reaches t...
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 may...
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 carry)....
Tenderness of age did not secure against the most oppressive and menial of labours....
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX A PENITENT NATION Lamentations 5:1-22 The form of the fifth poem differs in at least two respects from the four which precede it. First, this poem is not in the acrostic form. But...
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 t...
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 poe...
THEY TOOK THE YOUNG MEN TO GRIND] RV 'The young men bare the mill,' work usually done by women and slaves (Isaiah 47:2)....
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 5 JEREMIAH IS PRAYING. V1 Remember, *Lord, the suffering that has come upon us. Look down and see our shame....
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 itself,...
בַּחוּרִים֙ טְחֹ֣ון נָשָׂ֔אוּ וּ נְעָרִ֖ים בָּ †...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11 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 preceding p...
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 o...
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....
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.) w...
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...
I cannot proceed farther now....
The prophet can now present the whole affliction of the people to God, as an object of compassion and mercy. This is an onward step in the path of these deep exercises of heart. He is at peace with Go...
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. Som...
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 _Frustra...
_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 under t...
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, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient u...
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...
Lamentations 5:13 ground H2911 millstones H5375 (H8804) H970 Boys H5288 staggered H3782 (H8804) wood H6086
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 was...
CONTENTS: Lamentation of the state of Judah in captivity. Supplications for the return of mercy. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly, and God is th...
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. The insu...
_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 bringeth...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord. This concluding chapter is the community’s plea for restoration. It includes an opening petition (v....
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 BECAUSE O...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 5:1 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM. LAMENTATIONS 5:2...
Fifth lamentation: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans, fatherless, our mothers are...
Exodus 1:11; Exodus 11:5; Exodus 2:11; Exodus 23:5; Isaiah 47:2;...
Fell — Not being able to stand under the burdens laid upon them....