Cross references

Lamentations 5:13

Young men toil at millstones;

boys stagger under loads of wood.

Lamentations 5:13 BSB

Lamentations 5:13 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Judges 16:21 (4 votes) and Matthew 23:4 (3 votes). 11 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Exodus 1 to Matthew 23.

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Which verses does Lamentations 5:13 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

  2. They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

  3. So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

  4. One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

  5. and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.

  6. If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.

  7. About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive.” …

  8. Job 31:102 votes

    then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

  9. Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.

  10. Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?

Which verses point to Lamentations 5:13?

The 10 strongest of 11.