Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
4We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Jeremiah 18:21For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 5:2-17
An Appeal to God; Complicated Sorrows. ( b. c. 588.) 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. 3 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. 6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not;… Read the whole commentary →