Parallel Verses

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

We are become careful and fatherless, and our mothers are as the 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 has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.
3 We have become orphans without a father,
Our mothers are like widows.
4 We have to pay for our drinking water,
Our wood comes to us at a price.


Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, give their children over to famine
And deliver them up to the power of the sword;
And let their wives become childless and widowed.
Let their men also be smitten to death,
Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Exodus 22:24

and My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

“Their widows will be more numerous before Me
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man,
A destroyer at noonday;
I will suddenly bring down on her
Anguish and dismay.

Hosea 14:3

“Assyria will not save us,
We will not ride on horses;
Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’
To the work of our hands;
For in You the orphan finds mercy.”

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