Bible verse
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Lamentations 5.
7 Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
KJV
They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.
ASV
They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
ERV
They ravished the women in Zion, the maidens in the cities of Judah.
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