Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the nashim in Tziyon, 1 and the betulot in the towns of Yehudah. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin was hot like an oven 1 because we burn with ra'av (hunger, famine). 1
12Sarim (princes) are hanged by their yad; 1 the faces of Zekenim were not respected. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their olelim (infants) also shall be dashed to pieces 1 before their eyes; 1 their batim (houses) shall be looted, 1 and their nashim ravished. 1
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 →