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Lamentations 5:3

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

We are orphans {H3490} and fatherless {H369}{H1}, our mothers {H517} are as widows {H490}.

We have become fatherless orphans, our mothers now are widows.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

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

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 18:21 (4 votes)

    Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

  • Exodus 22:24 (4 votes)

    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 15:8 (3 votes)

    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 spoiler at noonday: I have caused [him] to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

  • Hosea 14:3 (3 votes)

    Asshur 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.