Lamentations 5:11
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
12The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their infants will be thrown down violently before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered, and their wives will be violated.
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 →