Lamentations 5:12-14

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹²Princes are hung up by their hands;
    no respect is shown to the elders.
¹³Young men are compelled to grind at the mill;
    and boys stagger under loads of wood.
¹⁴The old men have quit the city gate,
    the young men their music.

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