Lamentations 5:11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
12Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
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 →