Lamentations 5:3
Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
4Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by 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 →