Lamentations 5:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.”
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BSBPD
“We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Orphans we have been--without a father, our mothers <FI>are<Fi> as widows.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 5:3 — 5 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 22:23If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.
- Exodus 22:24My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Jeremiah 15:8I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Hosea 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
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