Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger 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、

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 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.

Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Take millstones and grind flour; take off your veil. Lift up your skirts, bare your legs, and wade through the streams.

Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow Jews.Some were saying,“ We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”Others were saying,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.”Still others were saying,“ We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others.”

“ Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.

then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.