Lamentations 5:3 · KJV
“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are} as widows.”
— Lamentations 5:3
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
Lamentations 5 — Context
Remember, 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. {is...: Heb. cometh for price}
5Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour, {and} have no rest. {Our...: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted}
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their {blood} by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and {be} widows; and let their men be put to death; {let} their young men {be} slain by the sword in battle. {pour...: Heb. pour them out}
Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Hosea 14:3
Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, {Ye are} our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused {him} to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city. {the mother...: or, the mother city a young man spoiling, etc, or, the mother and the young men}