Lamentations 5 · Verse 3

Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:3, King James Version

Lamentations 5:3 in other translations

BSBWe have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
WEBWe are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
ASVWe are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
YLTOrphans we have been--without a father, our mothers are as widows.
DARBYWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
BBEWe are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
WebsterWe are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

What does Lamentations 5:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. fatherless--Our whole land is full of orphans [Calvin]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (Jr 3:19), [Grotius].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 5:1-16

The Jewish nation supplicating the Divine favour. Verses 1-16 Is any afflicted? Let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God. The people of God do so here; they complain not of evils feared, but of evils felt. If penitent and patient under what we suffer for the sins of our fathers, we may expect that He who punishes, will return in mercy to us. They acknowledge, Woe unto us that we have sinned!…

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Lamentations 5:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְתוֹמִ֤יםye.to.Mimfatherless onesH3490
הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ha.Yi.nuwe have becomeH1961
וְאֵ֣יןve.einand there notH369
אָ֔ב'Av[is] a fatherH1
אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ'i.mo.Tei.numothers ourH517
כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת\׃ke.'al.ma.Not[are] like widowsH490

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 5:3

  • Jeremiah 18:21

    Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Exodus 22:24

    And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

  • Jeremiah 15:8

    Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

  • Hosea 14:3

    Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ex 22:24; Jer 18:21; Ho 14:3

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Context

  • Lamentations 5:2

    Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

  • Lamentations 5:3

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

  • Lamentations 5:4

    We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

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Lamentations 5:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Huérfanos somos sin padre, nuestras madres como viudas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Nous sommes des orphelins, sans père; nos mères sont comme des veuves.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wir sind Waisen, ohne Vater; unsere Mütter sind wie Witwen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.