Lamentaciones 5:3

3 Hemos quedado huérfanos, sin padre, nuestras madres, como viudas.

Lamentaciones 5:3 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless
In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a civil sense, their king being taken from them; and in a religious sense, God having forsaken them for their sins: our mothers [are] as widows;
either really so, their husbands being dead; or were as if they had no husbands, they not being able to provide for them, protect and deferred them. The Targum adds,

``whose husbands are gone to the cities of the sea, and it is doubtful whether they are alive.''

Some understand this politically, of their cities being desolate and defenceless.

Lamentaciones 5:3 In-Context

1 Acuérdate, oh SEÑOR, de lo que nos ha sucedido; mira y ve nuestro oprobio.

2 Nuestra heredad ha pasado a extraños, nuestras casas a extranjeros.

3 Hemos quedado huérfanos, sin padre, nuestras madres, como viudas.

4 Por el agua que bebemos tenemos que pagar, nuestra leña nos llega por precio.

5 Sobre nuestros cuellos están nuestros perseguidores; no hay descanso para nosotros, estamos agotados.