Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows.

New American Standard Bible

We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.

King James Version

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Holman Bible

We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are widows.

International Standard Version

We are now orphans without fathers and our mothers are like widows.

A Conservative Version

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

American Standard Version

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Amplified


We have become orphans without a father;
Our mothers are like widows.

Bible in Basic English

We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

Darby Translation

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Julia Smith Translation

We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows.

King James 2000

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Lexham Expanded Bible

We have become orphans, fatherless, our mothers are like widows.

Modern King James verseion

We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows.

NET Bible

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

New Heart English Bible

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.

The Emphasized Bible

Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.

Webster

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

World English Bible

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יתום 
Yathowm 
Usage: 42

אם 
'em 
Usage: 220

References

Easton

Context Readings

A Request For Mercy

2 Our inheritance is turned to the strangers, and our houses to the aliens. 3 We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the widows. 4 We are fain to drink our own water for money, and our own wood must we buy with money.

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore let their children die of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sword. Let their wives be robbed of their children, and become widows: let their husbands be slain, let their young men be killed with the sword in the field.

Exodus 22:24

and then will my wrath wax hot and I will kill you with sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will make their widows more in number than the sands of the sea. Upon the mothers of their children, I shall bring a destroyer in the noonday. Suddenly and unawares, shall I send a fear upon their cities.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us, neither will we ride on horses: neither will we say to the works of our own hands, 'Ye are our Gods,' for thou hast compassion on the friendless.

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