예레미야애가 5:13 해설: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Rashi

“Young men” [5:13]. They took the young men and made them to turn the mill. The same with wood. They loaded down the young men with wood to make them exhausted.

Encumbered with millstones. When the enemies led them away in neck irons, they would place on their shoulders millstones and burdens in order to tire them.¹⁰Alternatively, ‘youths were forced to grind wheat,’ a task which drains their strength. (Ibn Ezra) And similarly, “[and boys] staggered with beams,” [meaning that] their strength failed. The expression of staggering כִּשְׁלוֹן applies to the weakening of strength, as is stated in Ezra, “And Yehudah said, ‘the strength of the bearer has failed,’”¹¹Nechemyah 4:4. and similarly, “He has caused my strength to fail.”¹²Eichah 1:14.