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  • Esmari Potgieter

2025-02-13
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  1. Lamentations 5:11 (ESV)
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Commentary on Lamentations 5:11 (Summary)

Lamentations 5:11 (ESV)

11 Women are raped in Zion, young women in the towns of Judah.

As often happens in war situations, Judean women were being raped wherever the Babylonian soldiers went. In this way the women, as well as their people, were reduced to terrible shame.

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