| Lamentations 5:13
| They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
| Indecently, like the Sodomites. Hebrew, "they made the young men grind" at the mill, in their prison, (Haydock) as Samson (Judges 16:21.) and Sedecias (according to the Septuagint, Lamentations 52:11.) were forced to do. To grind is often used in a bad sense; but it is not necessary to adopt it here. (Calmet) (Amama) --- The Chaldeans treated their captives without pity or shame. (Haydock) --- Wood; burdens, or stumbling-blocks, unless they were crucified; or, "roasted," if we admit a small alteration in the Hebrew, Lamentations 4:10. (Calmet) --- They were forced to grind naked, and were beaten with staves. (Worthington)
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