Lamentations 5:3 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 5:3

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

KJV

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DBT

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

ASV

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

WEB

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

YLT

Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers are as widows.

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Jeremiah 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 death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Exodus 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.
John 14:18
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Jeremiah 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 upon the city.
Hosea 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.

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Our king, who is the father of the country, is cut off; nay, God our Father seems to have forsaken us and cast us off; our mothers, our cities, that were as fruitful mothers in Israel, are now as widows, are as wives whose husbands are dead, destitute of comfort, and exposed to wrong and injury, and this is our reproach; for we who made a figure are now looked on with contempt." 3.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

We - We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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LAM 5:3HOS 14:3 PSA 10:14
LAM 5:3EXO 22:24 JER 15:8
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LAM 5:3HOS 14:3 PSA 68:5
LAM 5:3HOS 14:3 ISA 31:1
LAM 5:3EXO 22:24 PSA 109:9
LAM 5:3HOS 14:3 JHN 14:18
LAM 5:3HOS 14:3 HOS 5:13
LAM 5:3JER 18:21 PSA 109:9-20

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