Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.(Lamentations 5:10)

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.(Lamentations 5:11)

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.(Lamentations 5:12)

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

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.(Lamentations 5:14)

The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.(Lamentations 5:15)

The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!(Lamentations 5:16)

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Lamentations 5:13 - Cross Reference

Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. (Exodus 1:11)

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (Job 31:10)

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. (Matthew 23:4)

Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers. (Isaiah 47:2)

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. (Exodus 2:11)

If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him. (Exodus 23:5)

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. (Judges 16:21)

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts. (Exodus 11:5)

And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews. (Nehemiah 5:1)

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? (Isaiah 58:6)