World English Bible
Lamentations 5:11
“They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
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We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
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Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
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They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
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Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.
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The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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