Lamentations 3:53

3:53 They shut me up in a pit

and threw stones at me.

Lamentations 5:5

5:5 We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks;

we are weary and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:11

5:11 They raped women in Zion,

virgins in the towns of Judah.


tn Heb “my life.”

tn Heb “We are hard-driven on our necks”

sn For the theological allusion that goes beyond physical rest, see, e.g., Deut 12:10; 25:19; Josh 1:13; 11:23; 2 Sam 7:1, 11; 1 Chron 22:18; 2 Chron 14:6-7

tn Heb “ravished.”