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Lamentations 5:3
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We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
Lamentations 5:3 in Other Translations
KJV
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
ESV
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We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
NLT
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We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.
MSG
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Orphans we are, not a father in sight, and our mothers no better than widows.
CSB
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We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.
Lamentations 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.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Lamentations 5:3 In-Context
1
Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look, and see our disgrace.
2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.
3
We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
4
We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.
5
Those who pursue us are at our heels; we are weary and find no rest.
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Exodus 22:24 ;Jeremiah 15:8 ; SJeremiah 18:21
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