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
Read Lamentations 5:3 in the King James Version (KJV) and 5 other free, public-domain translations side by side.
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.
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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