Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths staggered 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 labor at millstones; boys stumble 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.

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and restrained him with bronze chains, and he became a grinder in the prison.

and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Take the millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, strip off the skirt, Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

Now there was a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers.For there were those who said,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let’s get grain so that we may eat and live.”And there were others who said,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses so that we might get grain because of the famine.”There also were those who said,“ We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Is this not the fast that I choose: To release the bonds of wickedness, To undo the ropes of the yoke, And to let the oppressed go free, And break every yoke?

And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger.

Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his fellow Hebrews and looked at their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his fellow Hebrews.

So they appointed taskmasters over them to oppress them with hard labor. And they built for Pharaoh storage cities, Pithom and Raamses.

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for its owner; you must arrange the load with him.

May my wife grind grain for another, And let others kneel down over her.