Young men are led away to work at millstones, and boys stagger under heavy 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 labor at millstones; boys stumble under 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.

So the Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They took him to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze chains and forced to grind grain in the prison.

All the firstborn sons will die in every family in Egypt, from the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, to the oldest son of his lowliest servant girl who grinds the flour. Even the firstborn of all the livestock will die.

Take heavy millstones and grind flour. Remove your veil, and strip off your robe. Expose yourself to public view.

About this time some of the men and their wives raised a cry of protest against their fellow Jews.They were saying,“ We have such large families. We need more food to survive.”Others said,“ We have mortgaged our fields, vineyards, and homes to get food during the famine.”And others said,“ We have had to borrow money on our fields and vineyards to pay our taxes.We belong to the same family as those who are wealthy, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others.”

“ No, this is the kind of fasting I want: Free those who are wrongly imprisoned; lighten the burden of those who work for you. Let the oppressed go free, and remove the chains that bind people.

They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.

Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.

So the Egyptians made the Israelites their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor. They forced them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses as supply centers for the king.

If you see that the donkey of someone who hates you has collapsed under its load, do not walk by. Instead, stop and help.

then let my wife serve another man; let other men sleep with her.