Lamentations 5:3
We be made fatherless children without (a) father; our mothers be as widows (or our mothers be like widows).
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 22:24and my great vengeance shall have indignation on you, and I shall smite you with sword (or and I shall strike you down with a sword), and your wives shall be widows, and your sons shall be fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore give thou the sons of them into hunger, and lead forth them into the hands of [the] sword; the wives of them be made without children, and be made widows, and the husbands of them be slain by death; the young men of them be pierced together by sword in battle. (And so give thou their sons into hunger, and lead them forth into the hands of the sword; let their wives be made without children, and be made widows, and let their husbands be killed; and let their young men be altogether pierced 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 →