New King James Version
Lamentations 5:3
3We have become orphans and waifs, 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 Living Translation (NLT)We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.
Context of Lamentations 5:3
1Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and behold our reproach! 2Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, And our houses to foreigners. We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows. 4We pay for the water we drink, And our wood comes at a price. 5They pursue at our heels; We labor 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 wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle.
- Hosea 14:3Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”
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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