Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
"Young men bare the mill ... children stumbled under the wood"  (Lamentations 5:13).  What we have here is, "The disgrace of young men being compelled to do the work usually assigned to women or slaves (grinding at the mill)."[12]  Also, we see the abuse of the children in their being compelled to carry burdens too heavy for a child.