Lamentations 5:3
We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.
4We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.
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 →