World English Bible
Lamentations 5:3
“We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 5
1
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see 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 to us.
5
Our pursuers are on our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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