Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.”
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Lamentations 5:3 Context
1Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants. 3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes. 4We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs. 5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
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Other Translations
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
- King James Version
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- American Standard Version (1901)
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
- Basic English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Darby Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Webster's Bible
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- World English Bible
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
- Youngs Literal Bible
We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
- King James Version
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- American Standard Version (1901)
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
- Basic English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Darby Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Webster's Bible
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- World English Bible
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
- Youngs Literal Bible
We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Bible commentary
Wesley's Notes for Lamentations 5:3
5:3 We - We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.