KJV King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
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Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
WEB World English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
ASV American Standard Version
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers are as widows.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.
6 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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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.Jeremiah 15:8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
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