Lamentations 5:11
Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
12Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16And their babes shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes: spoiled shall be their houses, and their wives 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 →