Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows.
New American Standard Bible
Our mothers are like widows.
King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Holman Bible
our mothers are 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 inheritance has been turned over to strangers, and our homes to foreigners. 3 We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows. 4 We pay to drink our own water, and our own wood is sold to us at high price.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, make their children undergo famine, and deliver them over to death in time of war. May their women be childless widows! May their men be slaughtered! May their young men be slain by the sword in battle!
Exodus 22:24
And I'll be angry and will kill you with swords, and your wives will become widows and your children orphans.
Jeremiah 15:8
I'll make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At noontime I'll send a destroyer against the mother of a young man. I'll cause terror and anguish to come to her unexpectedly.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria won't save us; we won't be riding on horses, Nor will we be saying anymore to the work of our hands, "You are our God." Indeed, in you the orphan finds mercy.'