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Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:3 · World English Bible
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Lamentations 5:3 in other translations
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
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In context
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
6 We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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