Lamentations 5:11
Women are raped in Zion, 1 and virgins in the cities of Judah. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin has grown as hot as an oven 1 because of the burning heat of hunger. 1
12Princes are hung up by their own hands, 1 and no honor is shown to the elders. 1
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. 1 Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped. 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 →