Lamentations 5:3 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.”

Lamentations 5:3 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Lamentations 5:3 in 6 Bible Translations

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Lamentations 5:3 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.”

Lamentations 5:3 — World English Bible

Lamentations 5:3 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

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

Lamentations 5:3 — American Standard Version

Lamentations 5:3 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers <FI>are<Fi> as widows.”

Lamentations 5:3 — Young's Literal Translation

Lamentations 5:3 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. ”

Lamentations 5:3 — Darby Translation

Lamentations 5:3 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.”

Lamentations 5:3 — Geneva Bible

Lamentations 5:3 in Context — Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

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What Does Lamentations 5:3 Mean?

Lamentations 5:3 is a verse from the Book of Lamentations, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Lamentations chapter 5. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

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