Lamentations 5:3
We are become orphans, we have no father, 1 Our mothers are as widows. 1
Updated 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, 1 Our houses to strangers: 1
4We have drunk our water for money; 1 Our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck: 1
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 →