Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood.

少年人扛磨石，孩童背木柴，都绊跌了。

年轻人扛磨石，孩童背木柴而跌倒。

年轻人扛磨石，孩童背木柴而跌倒。

青年被迫推磨，孩童肩背柴捆，步履蹒跚。

青年人推磨吃苦；孩童因背木柴而跌倒。

少年人扛磨石，孩童背木柴，都絆跌了。

年輕人扛磨石，孩童背木柴而跌倒。

年輕人扛磨石，孩童背木柴而跌倒。

青年被迫推磨，孩童肩背柴捆，步履蹣跚。

青年人推磨吃苦；孩童因背木柴而跌倒。

青年人推着磨，少年人背着木柴而打趔趄。

少者服於磨石、稚子躓於薪下兮、

使壯者旋磨、幼穉負薪而偃仆兮。

使壯者負磨石、使少者負薪而仆、

Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Our young men are forced to grind grain at the mill. Our boys almost fall down as they carry heavy loads of wood.

Young men are compelled to grind at the mill, and boys stagger under loads of wood.

Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.

Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths staggered under loads of wood.

Young men ground at the millstones; Boys staggered under loads of wood.

The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

Young men labor at millstones; boys stumble under loads of wood.

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

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

and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is at the grindstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

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

There was a widespread outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish countrymen.Some were saying,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are numerous. Let us get grain so that we can eat and live.”Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards, and homes to get grain during the famine.”Still others were saying,“ We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?

They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them.

Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people.

So the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. They built Pithom and Rameses as supply cities for Pharaoh.

“ If you see the donkey of someone who hates you lying helpless under its load, and you want to refrain from helping it, you must help with it.

let my own wife grind grain for another man, and let other men sleep with her.