Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
New American Standard Bible
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Holman Bible
girls in the cities of Judah.
International Standard Version
They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.
A Conservative Version
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
American Standard Version
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Amplified
They ravished the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Darby Translation
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
Julia Smith Translation
They humbled the women in Zion the virgins in the cities of Judah.
King James 2000
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They raped women in Zion, young women in the cities of Judah.
Modern King James verseion
They raped the women in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.
NET Bible
They raped women in Zion, virgins in the towns of Judah.
New Heart English Bible
They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
The Emphasized Bible
Women - in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!
Webster
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
World English Bible
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
Youngs Literal Translation
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
Themes
Armies » Exercised savage cruelties on the vanquished
Captive » Cruelty to » Ravished
Rape » Captives afflicted with
War » Often attended by » Cruelty
Woman » Often treated with great cruelty in war
Interlinear
`anah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
10 Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food. 11 They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. 12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
Phrases
Cross References
Zechariah 14:2
For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.
Isaiah 13:16
Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.
Deuteronomy 28:30
You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.