John Gill Commentary Lamentations 5:11

"They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah." — Lamentations 5:11 (ASV)

They ravished the women in Zion
Or "humbled" them ^F23 ; an euphemism; the women that were married to men in Zion, as the Targum; and if this wickedness was committed in the holy mountain of Zion, it was still more abominable and afflicting, and to be complained of; and if by the servants before mentioned, as Aben Ezra interprets it, it is another aggravating circumstance of it; for this was done not in Babylon when captives there; but at the taking of the city of Jerusalem, and by the common soldiers, as is too often practised:

[and] the maids in the cities of Judah ;
in all parts of the country, where the Chaldean army ravaged, there they ravished the maids. The Targum is, ``the women that were married to men in Zion were humbled by strangers; (the Targum in the king of Spain's Bible is, by the Romans; ) and virgins in the cities of Judah by the Chaldeans;'' suggesting that this account has reference to both destructions of the city, and the concomitants and consequences thereof.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F23: (wne) (etapeinwsan) , Sept. "humiliaverunt", V. L. Munster.