Lamentations 5:3
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
4We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24And my fury will be enraged, and I will strike you down with the sword. And your wives will become widows, and your sons will become orphans.
Jeremiah 18:21Because of this, give their sons over to famine, and bring them to the hand of the sword. Let their wives be widows without children. And let their husbands be slain by death. Let their youths be stabbed with the sword in battle.
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 →