Lamentations 5:3
Good News Translation
Our fathers have been killed by the enemy, and now our mothers are widows.

New Revised Standard Version
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Contemporary English Version
We are like children whose mothers are widows.

New American Bible
We have become orphans, without fathers; our mothers are like widows.

Douay-Rheims Bible
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Exodus 22:24 And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods: for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

Context
A Prayer for Restoration
2Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers. 3We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.4We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.…
Cross References
Exodus 22:24
And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:2
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