Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans; we are without a father; Our mothers are as widows.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance is fallen to strangers, Our houses to aliens.
4Our water we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore give thou up their sons to famine, And deliver them to the edge of the sword! Let their wives be childless and widows, Let their men be slain by pestilence, And their young men fall by the 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 →