Lamentations 5:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 14:2 : 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.
  • Isa 13:16 : 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.
  • Deut 28:30 : 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.

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