Lamentations 5:11
Wives in Zion they have humbled, || Virgins—in cities of Judah.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin as an oven has been burning, || Because of the raging of the famine.
12Princes have been hanged by their hand, || Elderly faces have not been honored.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16And their sucklings are dashed to pieces before their eyes, || Their houses are spoiled, and their wives lain with.
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 →