Lamentations 5:3

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore, give up their sons to famine, And cause them to run on the sides of the sword, And their wives are bereaved and widows, And their men are slain by death, Their young men smitten by sword in battle,
  • Exod 22:24 : 24 and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
  • Jer 15:8 : 8 Its widows have been more to Me than the sand of the seas, I brought in to them -- against the mother -- A young man -- a spoiler -- at noon. I caused to fall upon her suddenly, wrath and trouble.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.'

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