Lamentations 5:13 Cross References

Lamentations 5:13

13: The young men are led away to work at millstones, and the children stagger under heavy loads of wood.

Judges 16:21

  1. So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and made to grind grain in the prison.

Isaiah 47:2

  1. Take heavy millstones and grind the corn. Remove your veil and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.

Exodus 11:5

  1. All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest slave. Even the firstborn of the animals will die.

Exodus 23:5

  1. If you see the donkey of someone who hates you struggling beneath a heavy load, do not walk by. Instead, stop and offer to help.

Exodus 1:11

  1. So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves and put brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down under heavy burdens. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

Job 31:10

  1. then may my wife belong to another man; may other men sleep with her.

Matthew 23:4

  1. They crush you with impossible religious demands and never lift a finger to help ease the burden.

Nehemiah 5:1

  1. About this time some of the men and their wives raised a cry of protest against their fellow Jews.
  2. They were saying, "We have such large families. We need more money just so we can buy the food we need to survive."
  3. Others said, "We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine."
  4. And others said, "We have already borrowed to the limit on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.
  5. We belong to the same family, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others."

Exodus 2:11

  1. Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his people, the Israelites, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of the Hebrew slaves.

Isaiah 58:6

  1. "No, the kind of fasting I want calls you to free those who are wrongly imprisoned and to stop oppressing those who work for you. Treat them fairly and give them what they earn.
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