Lamentations 5:11
in Lamentations 5Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
KJV
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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This verse in Lamentations 5
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThey 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.
This site's exposition
They ravished the women in Zion
on Lamentations 5:11-12
Verse 11 names an atrocity of the conquest without euphemism, women ravished in Zion and maids in the cities of Judah, a war crime the older commentators read as literal history rather than figure. Verse 12 adds a second outrage against rank, princes hanged up by their hand and the faces of elders not honoured, the city's leadership humiliated along with its women.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נָשִׁים֙ | nashim | women | H802 → | 781 times |
| בְּצִיּ֣וֹן | betziyon | in Zion | H6726 → | 154 times |
| עִנּ֔וּ | ʾinu | men have humiliated | H6031 → | |
| בְּתֻלֹ֖ת | betulot | virgins | H1330 → | 50 times |
| בְּעָרֵ֥י | bearei | in [the] cities of | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| יְהוּדָֽה׃ | yehudah | Judah | H3063 → | 819 times |
נָשִׁים֙women
nashimH802 →781 times
בְּצִיּ֣וֹןin Zion
betziyonH6726 →154 times
עִנּ֔וּmen have humiliated
ʾinuH6031 →
בְּתֻלֹ֖תvirgins
betulotH1330 →50 times
בְּעָרֵ֥יin [the] cities of
beareiH5892 →1090 times
יְהוּדָֽה׃Judah
yehudahH3063 →819 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the…
it leads to
- Luke 21:20–24
But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, you will know that her desolation is near.
- Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.
- Romans 9:27–29
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
- Matthew 24:19–22
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Mark 13:14
So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
- Luke 21:20–24
Through
Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not…
it leads to
- Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the…
- Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all…
- Job 31:10
then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
- Amos 5:11
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Who and where
2 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PersonPatriarchsJudahJacob's fourth son who pledges himself for Benjamin; the tribe that carries the scepter to Shiloh (49:10) and the line to Christ (…
- PlaceJerusalemZionThe eastern ridge David took from the Jebusites and made his stronghold, the name the Psalms and the prophets give the city the LO…
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
