Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.”
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Lamentations 5:3 Context
1Remember, O Lord, what is come vpon vs: consider and beholde our reproch. 2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants. 3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes. 4We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs. 5Our neckes are vnder persecution: we labour and haue no rest.
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.
- King James Version
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.
- New American Standard Version (1995)