King James Version
Lamentations 5:11 in the King James Version says “They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.”
Lamentations 5:11 · KJV
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. terrible: or, terrors, or, storms
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“They ravished”
H6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
“and the maids”
H1330a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
“in the cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“of Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
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