Lamentations 5:13 meaning and explanation
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:13, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the surviving community in Jerusalem after the Babylonians destroyed the city in 586 BC, and the whole chapter is a prayer of corporate lament addressed to God. Verse 13 names the young men and boys who should have been the city's strength and future.
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