Lamentations 5:11
Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
In Context
10Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.
12Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.
Cross References
Isaiah 13:16And, their infants, shall be dashed to the ground, before their eyes,—Plundered 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 →