Lamentations 5:3

Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.

v.3This passage

v.4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 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 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.

  • 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 destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

  • Hosea 14:3

    Assyria 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.