Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
KJV
Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.
Vulgate
ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν, οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατήρ, μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι.
LXX
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
ASV
יְתוֹמִ֤ים הָיִ֨ינוּ֙ אין וְ/אֵ֣ין אָ֔ב אִמֹּתֵ֖י/נוּ כְּ/אַלְמָנֽוֹת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֵ֥ין
'yn
noun · 787×
אַלְמָנָ֖ה
'lmnh
noun · 56×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
וֹ
v
noun · 220×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יָּת֥וֹם
ytvm
noun · 42×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Exod 22:24 — And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Exod 22:24 — And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Hos 14:3 — Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
- Jer 15:8 — Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors
- Jer 18:21 — Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to dea
- Jer 18:21 — Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to dea
- John 14:18 — I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
- Ps 109:9 — Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.