Lamentations 5:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ We have become orphans, fatherless, Our mothers are like widows.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

³ We have become orphans, having no father; our mothers are like widows.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

Lamentations 5:3 Cross References

Exodus 22:23

“If you do afflict them at all – if they cry out to Me at all, I shall certainly hear their cry,

Exodus 22:24

and My wrath shall burn and I shall slay you with the sword, your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

“Their widows shall be more numerous than the sand of the seas. I shall bring against them, against the mother of the young men, a ravager at noon. I shall cause agitation and sudden alarm to fall on her, suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

So give their children over to scarcity of food, and hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become widows and bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, their young men be smitten by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

“Ashshur does not save us. We do not ride on horses, nor ever again do we say to the work of our hands, ‘Our mighty ones.’ For the fatherless finds compassion in You.”