Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities 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.
Bible in Basic English
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns 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.
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 as it had been burnt in an oven, for very sore hunger. 11 The wives are ravished in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah. 12 The princes are hanged up with the hand of the enemies; they have not spared the old sage men;
Phrases
Cross References
Zechariah 14:2
For I will gather together all the Heathen, to fight against Jerusalem: so that the city shall be won, the houses spoiled, and the women defiled. The half of the city shall go away into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be carried out of the city.
Isaiah 13:16
Their children shall be slain before their eyes, their houses spoiled, and their wives ravished.
Deuteronomy 28:30
Thou shalt be betrothed unto a wife, and another shall lie with her. Thou shalt build a house and another shall dwell therein. Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not make it common.