“ They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. ”
They ravished - They humbled.
Lamentations 5. A Prayer. This chapter differs much from the previous four. It is not a Lament, but one long pleading; and it is not the chant of an individual, but of a company, a plural, we. It m...
women . wives.
He mentions here another kind of reproach, that women had been ravished in Jerusalem, and in other cities. (232) God had commanded chastity to be observed among his people. When, therefore, vi...
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah - The evil mentioned here was predicted by Moses, Deute...
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. They ravished the women in Zion. So, in just retribution, Babylon itself should fare in the end ( Isaiah 13:16 ). Jerusa...
Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual than the others, with no trace of vindictiveness. The...
SIN AND SHAME Lamentations 5:11-18 THE keynote of the fifth elegy is struck in its opening verse when the poet calls upon God to remember the reproach that has been cast upon His people. The pr...
The final poem is an appeal out of sorrow to Jehovah. Speaking on behalf of the whole nation, the prophet called on Jehovah to remember. He described the actual desolation, telling of the affliction...
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there...
They ravished the women in Zion ,.... Or "humbled" them w; an euphemism; the women that were married to men in Zion, as the Targum; and if this wickedness was committed in the holy mountain of Zion,...
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah. Ver. 11. They ravished the women in Zion. ] Heb., They humbled, i.e., they dishonested: although Virgo invita vexari qu...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588. 1 Remember, O L ORD , what is come upo...
Usual outrages of barbarous soldiers. The Hebrew is, They humbled , a modest term to express these actions by.
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah. The Israelite women were now easy prey for the Babylonian soldiers so that many women, including virgins, were ravished in Jerus...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Our skin is hot like an oven; the feverishness is...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with hope in the latter day. Psalms 85 ; Hosea 3 . T...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance. The land had been "given" to Abraham ( Genesis 13...
Description of the Present Misery
Deuteronomy 28:30 ; Isaiah 13:16 ; Zechariah 14:2