Lamentations 5:11
Verse 11 of 22. The 5th of 5 chapters in Lamentations, in The Major Prophets.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
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Lamentations 5:11 in the World English Bible
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Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:11
All sorts of people, even those whose persons and characters were most inviolable, were abused and dishonoured. (1.) The women were ravished, even the women in Zion, that holy mountain, v. 11. The committing of such abominable wickednesses there is very justly and sadly complained of. (2.) The great men were not only put to death, but put to ignominious deaths.
Read Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:1–16: An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. (b. c. 588.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.