Lamentations
King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.”
King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:3 Context
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. 3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. 6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Translation Details for Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.
Other Translations for Lamentations 5:3
Bible Commentary for Lamentations 5:3
Wesley's Notes for Lamentations 5:3
5:3 We - We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.
We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- American Standard Version (1901)
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
- Basic English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Darby Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Webster's Bible
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- World English Bible
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
- Youngs Literal Bible
We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible