They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:11 stands within the book's sorrowful reckoning of Judah's ruin and the affliction that fell upon its people. It records one element of that national calamity, the violation of women in Zion and of young women in the cities of Judah. Its place is among the griefs that marked the overthrow of the kingdom and the suffering endured by its inhabitants.
Lamentations 5:11 stands within the book's sorrowful reckoning of Judah's ruin and the affliction that fell upon its people. It records one element of that national calamity, the violation of women in Zion and of young women in the cities of Judah. Its place is among the griefs that marked the overthrow of the kingdom and the suffering endured by its inhabitants.