Lamentations 5:3
World English Bible (WEB)
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
In context
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:3 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
- KJV King James Version
- We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- ASV American Standard Version
- We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
- DBY Darby Translation
- We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
- WBS Webster Bible
- We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.