Lamentations 5:11
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
Free Bible 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 hot like an oven because of the fever caused by hunger.
12Princes have been hung up by their hands; they show elders no respect.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their little children will be dashed to pieces as they watch, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be raped.
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 →