Lamentations 5:3

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

1Remember, O Yhwh, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. 4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

Lamentations 5:3 word by word

יְתוֹמִ֤ים הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ וְאֵ֣ין אָ֔ב אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃Read the interlinear

• We are orphansיָתוֹםyâthôm · orphanH3490
• and fatherlessאָב'âb · fatherH1
• and fatherlessאַ֫יִן'ayin · nothingH369
• our mothersאֵם'êm · motherH517
• as widowsאַלְמָנָה'almânâh · widowH490

Cross-references for Lamentations 5:3

• Exodus 22:24And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and 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; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
• Hosea 14:3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth 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

Topics related to Lamentations 5:3

• Orphan
• Patriotism

In the dictionaries

• Crown
• Orphans
• Persecution
• Acrostic
• Fatherless
• Lamentations, Book of
• Orphan
• Poetry, Hebrew

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