Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lamentations 5:3 · King James Version

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In other versions

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
ASV
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
BBE
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
DBY
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
WEB
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.
YLT
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
ENG
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
WBT
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
BSB

In context

¹Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

²Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

³We 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.

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