Lamentations 5:11
“They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah.”
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Lamentations 5:11 Context
9We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse. 10Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine. 11They rauished the women in Zion, and the maides in the cities of Iudah. 12Princes are hanged vp by their hand: the faces of Elders were not honoured. 13They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.
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They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
- King James Version
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
- American Standard Version (1901)
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
- Basic English Bible
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.
- Darby Bible
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
- Webster's Bible
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
- World English Bible
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins -- in cities of Judah.
- Youngs Literal Bible
They have ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible