Lamentations 5:3
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
LXX2012 (US English)
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, our houses to strangers:
4We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
Cross References
Exodus 22:24And I will be very angry, and will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children orphans.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore do you 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 →