Lamentations 5:11
The wiues are rauished in Sion, and the maydens in the cities of Iuda.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skinne is as it had ben made blacke in an ouen, for very sore hunger.
12The princes are hanged vp with the hand of the enemies, they haue not spared the olde sage men.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their chyldren shalbe slayne before their eyes: their house spoyled, and their wiues rauished.
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 →