Lamentations 5:11

They ravished - They humbled.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:11

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

women . wives.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He mentions here another kind of reproach, that women had been ravished in Jerusalem, and in other cities. (232) God had commanded chastity to...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 itse...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 tha...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 r...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 th...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 wick...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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.,...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Usual outrages of barbarous soldiers. The Hebrew is, They humbled , a modest term to express these actions by.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 man...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:10 . The bread, which was obtained at the risk of their lives, was not enough in quantity to nourish them. Ou...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

They, the invading armies and the raiding hordes, ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the cities of Judah, the usual accompaniment of barba...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:30 ; Isaiah 13:16 ; Zechariah 14:2

¹¹ They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:11

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:11