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Lamentations 5:3

World English Bible

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

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Lamentations 5:3 in other translations

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

Lamentations 5:3 · American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:3 in context

  1. 1Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
    Look, and see our reproach.
  2. 2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
    our houses to aliens.
  3. 3We are orphans and fatherless.
    Our mothers are as widows.
  4. 4We have drunken our water for money.
    Our wood is sold to us.
  5. 5Our pursuers are on our necks.
    We are weary, and have no rest.