Lamentations 5:11
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
12The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be pillaged, and their wives shall be 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 →