Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
12Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 1 Remember, O Lord , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →