Lamentations 5 · Verse 11

Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:11, King James Version

Lamentations 5:11 in other translations

BSBWomen have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
WEBThey ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
ASVThey ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
YLTWives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins--in cities of Judah.
DARBYThey have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
BBEThey took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
WebsterThey ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

What does Lamentations 5:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
11. So in just retribution Babylon itself should fare in the end. Jerusalem shall for the last time suffer these woes before her final restoration (Zec 14:2).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah - The evil mentioned here was predicted by Moses, Deu 28:30, Deu 28:32, and by Jeremiah, Jer 6:12.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16

The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned!…

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Lamentations 5:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

נָשִׁים֙na.ShimwomenH802
בְּצִיּ֣וֹןbe.tzi.Yonin ZionH6726
עִנּ֔וּ'i.Numen have humiliatedH6031
בְּתֻלֹ֖תbe.tu.LotvirginsH1330
בְּעָרֵ֥יbe.'a.Reiin [the] cities ofH5892
יְהוּדָֽה\׃ye.hu.DahJudahH3063

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 5:11

  • Isaiah 13:16

    Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

  • Zechariah 14:2

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

  • Deuteronomy 28:30

    Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
De 28:30; Isa 13:16; Zec 14:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Lamentations 5:10

    Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

  • Lamentations 5:11

    They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

  • Lamentations 5:12

    Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

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Lamentations 5:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Violaron á las mujeres en Sión, á las vírgenes en las ciudades de Judá.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils ont humilié les femmes dans Sion, les vierges dans les villes de Juda.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sie haben Weiber geschwächt in Zion, Jungfrauen in den Städten Judas.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Mulieres in Sion humiliaverunt, et virgines in civitatibus Juda.