Lamentations 5:11

11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.

Lamentations 5:11 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
English Standard Version (ESV)
11 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
New Living Translation (NLT)
11 Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.
The Message Bible (MSG)
11 Our wives were raped in the streets in Zion, and our virgins in the cities of Judah.
American Standard Version (ASV)
11 They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
11 Women in Zion are raped, so are the girls in the cities of Judah.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
11 Women are raped in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
11 Our women have been raped in Zion. Our virgins have been raped in the towns of Judah.

Lamentations 5:11 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:11

They ravished the women in Zion
Or "humbled" them F23; an euphemism; the women that were married to men in Zion, as the Targum; and if this wickedness was committed in the holy mountain of Zion, it was still more abominable and afflicting, and to be complained of; and if by the servants before mentioned, as Aben Ezra interprets it, it is another aggravating circumstance of it; for this was done not in Babylon when captives there; but at the taking of the city of Jerusalem, and by the common soldiers, as is too often practised: [and] the maids in the cities of Judah;
in all parts of the country, where the Chaldean army ravaged, there they ravished the maids. The Targum is,

``the women that were married to men in Zion were humbled by strangers; (the Targum in the king of Spain's Bible is, by the Romans;) and virgins in the cities of Judah by the Chaldeans;''
suggesting that this account has reference to both destructions of the city, and the concomitants and consequences thereof.
FOOTNOTES:

F23 (wne) (etapeinwsan) , Sept. "humiliaverunt", V. L. Munster.

Lamentations 5:11 In-Context

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.
11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
13 Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.

Cross References 1

  • 1. S Genesis 34:29; Zechariah 14:2
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