“Here special persons are viewed. For instance, women ravished in Zion by men corrupting women. As Deuteronomy 28:30 records: "You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her." And further on: "Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
Original
11They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
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In context
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
— Lamentations 5:11 —
12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.