Lamentations 5:3
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:
4We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
Cross References
Exodus 22:24And if thou shouldest lend money to thy poor brother who is by thee, thou shalt not be hard upon him, thou shalt not exact usury of him.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore do thou deliver their sons to famine, and gather them to the power of the sword: let their women be childless and widows; and let their men be cut off by death, and their young men fall by the sword in war.
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 →