Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They have raped women in Zion, young women 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.
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.
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 blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine. 11 They have raped women in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah. 12 Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
Phrases
Cross References
Zechariah 14:2
I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem, to lay siege against it. The city will be captured, the houses will be ransacked, the women raped, and half of the city will go into exile, but the remaining people will not be cut off from the city.
Isaiah 13:16
Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, and their houses will be looted, and their wives slept with.
Deuteronomy 28:30
"You'll be engaged to a woman, but another man will rape her. You'll build a house, but you won't live in it. You'll plant a vineyard, but you won't harvest it.