Lamentations 5:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

American Standard Version (1901)

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Common English Bible

We have become orphans, having no father; our mothers are like widows.

Catholic Public Domain Version

We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Lamentations 5:3 Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you do afflict them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24

and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to famine; give them over to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In thee the orphan finds mercy.”