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Lamentations 5:11

in Lamentations 5

Women 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.

This verse in Lamentations 5

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

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.

This site's exposition

Women have been ravished in Zion

on Lamentations 5:11-12

Verse 11 names an atrocity of the conquest plainly: “Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah”. Verse 12 adds an outrage against rank: “Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect”. The city's leaders are shamed along with its women.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Lamentations · Written before 1274.

proposed

Here special persons are viewed. For instance, women ravished in Zion by men corrupting women. As Deuteronomy 28:30 records: "You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her." And further on: "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

They ravished the women in Zion,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The committing of such abominable wickednesses there is very justly and sadly complained of. (2.) The great men were not only put to death, but put to ignominious deaths.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 14:2

    For 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.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 28:30

    You 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.

Where this verse is studied

About Lamentations

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.