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Lamentations 5:11 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 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 context
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ravishedʻânâhto depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitiveH6031 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- womenʼishshâha womanH802 →
- maidsbᵉthûwlâha virginH1330 →
- ZionTsîyôwnTsijon , a mountain of JerusalemH6726 →
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Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16