Lamentations 5:11

World English Bible (2000)

They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

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Referenced Verses

  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
  • Isa 13:16 : 16 Their infants also will be dashed in pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be ransacked, and their wives raped.
  • Deut 28:30 : 30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

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