Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 5 connects to 4 cross-references. The final lament is a communal prayer that lacks the alphabetic acrostic of the previous four poems. The community cries for God to remember: their inheritance has been turned over to strangers, women have been violated, and old men sit …
Other Translations
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers <FI>are<Fi> as widows.
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Cross References
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, …
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and …
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother …
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work …