Deuteronomy 28:30; Isaiah 13:16; Zechariah 14:2
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 a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.,...
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. B. C. 588....
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 man...
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...
REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 5:1-25 INSULT UPON INSULT HAS BEEN HEAPED UPON JERUSALEM . Lamentations 5:2 Our inheritance....
Description of the Present Misery
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...
11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.