Lamentations 5:3 “We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.”

Lamentations 5:3

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

World English Bible

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

American Standard Version

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Geneva Bible 1599

We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

Darby Translation

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Young's Literal Translation

Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.

Bible in Basic English

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

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Cross references

“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.”

Exodus 22:24 Jeremiah 18:21 Hosea 14:3

Exodus 22:24 · BSB

My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:21 · BSB

Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in…

Hosea 14:3 · BSB

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Also

Jeremiah 15:8

Jeremiah 15:8 · BSB

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

4We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

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