Lamentations 5:3
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have 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 deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Read in contextExodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
Read in contextHosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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