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


In Context

1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold 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 We have drank our water for money; our wood is sold to us.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and 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 Darby Bible Translation 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 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.