God’s Word Translation
Lamentations 5:3
3We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.
Lamentations 5:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- New International Version (NIV)We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.
- English Standard Version (ESV)We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
- New King James Version (NKJV)We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.
Context of Lamentations 5:3
1“Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Take a look at our disgrace! 2“The land we inherited has been turned over to strangers. Our homes have been turned over to foreigners. We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows. 4We have to pay to drink our own water. We have to pay to chop our own wood. 5⌞Our enemies⌟ are breathing down our necks. We are worn out ⌞and⌟ not permitted to rest.
Read all of Lamentations 5Lamentations 5:3 word by word
יְתוֹמִ֤ים הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ וְאֵ֣ין אָ֔ב אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 5:3
- Exodus 22:24I will become angry and have you killed in combat. Then your wives and children will become widows and orphans.
- Jeremiah 18:21Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their ⌞blood⌟ by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle.
- Hosea 14:3Assyria cannot save us. We won’t ride on horses anymore. We will never again say that the things our hands have made are our gods. You love orphans.”
Commentaries on Lamentations 5:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Our mothers are as widows - The particle “as” suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to that of fatherless orphans or wives just bereaved of their husbands.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. fatherless--Our whole land is full of orphans [Calvin]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (Jr 3:19), [Grotius].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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