Lamentations 5:3
1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- KJV
- We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- WEB
- We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
- ASV
- We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- DARBY
- We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- BLB
- Fatherless we have become, and those with no father; our mothers [are now] like widows.
- ÅB
- Vi er blitt farløse, har ingen far; våre mødre er som enker.
- OTB
- Vi har blitt som farløse, foreldreløse; våre mødre er som enker.
- B1930
- Vi er blitt farløse, har ingen far; våre mødre er som enker.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Read in contextExodus 22:24
My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:8
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
Read in contextHosea 14:3
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
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