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
5 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
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
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,....
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 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
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.
