King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:11
“They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
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.
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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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Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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