Lamentations 5:3
Lamentations chapter 5 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
KJV
King James Version · 1611We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
Context
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.