Lamentations 5:3
יְתוֹמִים הָיִינוּ אין אָב אִמֹּתֵינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת ׃
Hebrew Tanakh (Original)
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2נַחֲלָתֵנוּ נֶֽהֶפְכָה לְזָרִים בָּתֵּינוּ לְנָכְרִֽים ׃
4מֵימֵינוּ בְּכֶסֶף שָׁתִינוּ עֵצֵינוּ בִּמְחִיר יָבֹֽאוּ ׃
Cross References
Exodus 22:24אִם ־ כֶּסֶף ׀ תַּלְוֶה אֶת ־ עַמִּי אֶת ־ הֶֽעָנִי עִמָּךְ לֹא ־ תִהְיֶה לוֹ כְּנֹשֶׁה לֹֽא ־ תְשִׂימוּן עָלָיו נֶֽשֶׁךְ ׃
Jeremiah 18:21לָכֵן תֵּן אֶת ־ בְּנֵיהֶם לָרָעָב וְהַגִּרֵם עַל ־ יְדֵי ־ חֶרֶב וְתִֽהְיֶנָה נְשֵׁיהֶם שַׁכֻּלוֹת וְאַלְמָנוֹת וְאַנְשֵׁיהֶם יִֽהְיוּ הֲרֻגֵי מָוֶת בַּחוּרֵיהֶם מֻכֵּי ־ חֶרֶב בַּמִּלְחָמָֽה ׃
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 →