New English Translation
Lamentations 5:3
3We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become 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
1O Lord, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace. 2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes. We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows. 4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price. 5We are pursued – they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no 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 22:24and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Jeremiah 18:21So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
- Hosea 14:3Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
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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