Lamentations 5:11
They defiled the women in Zion, and the maydes in the cities of Iudah.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skinne was blacke like as an ouen because of the terrible famine.
12The princes are hanged vp by their hande: the faces of the elders were not had in honour.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16Their children also shall be broken in pieces before their eyes: their houses shall be spoiled, and their wiues rauished.
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 →