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Lamentations Chapter 5 verse 3 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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BBE Lamentations 5:3

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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DARBY Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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KJV Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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WBT Lamentations 5:3

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WEB Lamentations 5:3

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
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YLT Lamentations 5:3

Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers `are' as widows.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - We are orphans and fatherless; i.e. "We are like the most desolate of beings," as the Targum already explains it. Hence in the next clause the mothers of Israel ere likened to widows.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Our mothers are as widows--i.e., their husbands, though living, were carried into exile, and they were as destitute as though they had been deprived of them by death. The Chaldee paraphrase gives the same meaning to the last clause also, "We are like orphans."