Lamentations 5:3
Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
4Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24(22:23) My wrath shall wax hot, and I will slay you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore give up their children to the famine, and let their life ebb out by means of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and widows; and let their men be slain by death; their young men smitten by the sword in the 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 →