3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.


In Context

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see 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 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

Lamentations 5:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:3We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers like widows.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:3Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers are as widows.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.