King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.”
Verse 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.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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