Lamentations 5:3
We have lost our fathers, and our mothers are widows.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2The land we used to own has been handed over to strangers, our houses have been given to foreigners.
4The water we drink we have to pay for; our firewood comes at a price.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24I will become angry, and I will kill you with the sword. Your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21But now may their children starve; may they be killed by the sword. May their wives lose their children and their husbands; may their husbands die from disease; may their young men be killed 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 →