Lamentations 5:3
Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, || Our houses to foreigners.
4We have drunk our water for money, || Our wood comes for a price.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24and My anger has burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, || And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, || And their wives are bereaved and widows, || And their men are slain by death, || Their young men [are] struck by 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 →