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Lamentations 5:11

Zion

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

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BSB
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
KJV
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
WEB
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
ASV
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
DARBY
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
BLB
The women in Zion they have pressed down, [and] the maidens in the cities of Judah.
ÅB
Kvinner har de krenket i Sion, jomfruer i Judas byer.
OTB
Kvinner har blitt krenket i Sion, og jomfruer i Judas byer.
B1930
Kvinner har de krenket i Sion, jomfruer i Judas byer.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 13:16

    Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.

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  • Zechariah 14:2

    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:30

    Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

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