Lamentations 5:3

3 pupilli facti sumus absque patre matres nostrae quasi viduae

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.
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Lamentations 5:3 In-Context

1 recordare Domine quid acciderit nobis intuere et respice obprobrium nostrum
2 hereditas nostra versa est ad alienos domus nostrae ad extraneos
3 pupilli facti sumus absque patre matres nostrae quasi viduae
4 aquam nostram pecunia bibimus ligna nostra pretio conparavimus
5 cervicibus minabamur lassis non dabatur requies
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.