Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:13
A church father on this verse
“Thirdly, as to the youth: "Young men are compelled to grind at the mill; and boys stagger under loads of wood." The prophet Joel 3:3 declares: "And have cast lots for my people, and have given a boy for a harlot, and have sold a girl for wine, and have drunk it."”
Source: Septuagint
Original
13The chosen men lifted up the voice in weeping, And the youths fainted under the wood.
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In context
11They humbled the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
12Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.
— Lamentations 5:13 —
14And the elders ceased from the gate, The chosen men ceased from their music.
15The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.