Lamentations 5:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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 thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;

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 anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.

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.