Lamentations 5:3
Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.
4Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24so shall kindle mine anger, and I will slay you with the sword,—and your wives, shall become widows, and your, sons fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, give thou up their sons to the famine And deliver them into the hands of the sword, And let their, wives, become, childless and widows, And let, their men, be slain by death, Their young men be smitten 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 →