Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
our mothers are widows.
New American Standard Bible
Our mothers are like widows.
King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
International Standard Version
We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows.
A Conservative Version
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
American Standard Version
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Amplified
We have become orphans without a father;
Our mothers are like widows.
Bible in Basic English
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Darby Translation
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Julia Smith Translation
We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows.
King James 2000
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.
Modern King James verseion
We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows.
NET Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
New Heart English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
The Emphasized Bible
Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.
Webster
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
World English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Youngs Literal Translation
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.
Themes
Fatherless » A type of zion in affliction
Interlinear
'ayin
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
2
our houses to foreigners.
our mothers are widows.
our wood comes at a price.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21
and pour the sword’s power on them.
Let their wives become childless and widowed,
their husbands slain by deadly disease,
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Exodus 22:24
My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 15:8
than the sand of the seas.
I brought a destroyer at noon
against the mother of young men.
I suddenly released on her
agitation and terrors.
Hosea 14:3
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”