Lamentations 5:3
We are yetomim and fatherless, 1 immoteinu are like almanot. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our nachalah is turned over to zarim, 1 our batim (houses) to foreigners. 1
4We must pay kesef for our own mayim; 1 our wood is sold unto us. 1
Cross References
Exodus 22:24If thou lend kesef to any of My people that is poor among thee, thou shalt not be to him as a nosheh (a usurer), neither shalt thou lay upon him neshekh (usury, interest).
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their banim to the ra'av (famine) 1 and pour out their dahm by the force of the cherev; 1 and let their nashim be bereaved as childless, and be almanot (widows); 1 and let their anashim be put to death; 1 let their bochurim be slain by the cherev in milchamah. 1
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 →