11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
11 Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
11 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
11 Our wives were raped in the streets in Zion, and our virgins in the cities of Judah.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, The maidens in the cities of Judah.
11 Our enemies rape the women in Jerusalem and the young girls in all the towns of Judah.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Lamentations 5:11
Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16
(Read Lamentations 5:1-16)
Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned! All our woes are owing to our own sin and folly. Though our sins and God's just displeasure cause our sufferings, we may hope in his pardoning mercy, his sanctifying grace, and his kind providence. But the sins of a man's whole life will be punished with vengeance at last, unless he obtains an interest in Him who bare our sins in his own body on the tree.