Lamentaciones 5:3

3 No tenemos padre, hemos quedado huérfanos;viudas han quedado nuestras madres.

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 Recuerda, SEÑOR, lo que nos ha sucedido;toma en cuenta nuestro oprobio.

2 Nuestra heredad ha caído en manos extrañas;nuestro hogar, en manos de extranjeros.

3 No tenemos padre, hemos quedado huérfanos;viudas han quedado nuestras madres.

4 El agua que bebemos, tenemos que pagarla;la leña, tenemos que comprarla.

5 Los que nos persiguen nos pisan los talones;estamos fatigados y no hallamos descanso.