Parallel Verses
Amplified
We have become orphans without a father;
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.
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.
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,
Our houses to foreigners.
We have become orphans without a father;
Our mothers are like widows.
We have to pay for our drinking water;
Our wood comes to us at a price.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, give their children over to the famine;
Give them over to the power of the sword.
And let their wives become childless and widowed;
Let their men meet death [by virulent disease],
Their young men be struck down by the sword in battle.
Exodus 22:24
and My wrath shall be kindled and burn; I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 15:8
“I will make their widows more numerous before Me
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of the young men,
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I will suddenly cause anguish and terror
To fall on her.
Hosea 14:3
“Assyria will not save us;
We will not ride on horses [relying on military might],
Nor will we say again to [the idols who are] the work of our hands,
‘You are our gods.’
For in You [O Lord] the orphan finds love and compassion and mercy.”