Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Our mothers are like widows.
King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Holman Bible
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.
Themes
Fatherless » A type of zion in affliction
Interlinear
'ayin
References
Easton
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 5:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Request For Mercy
2
Our heritage is turned over to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
3
Our mothers are like widows.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, give their children over to famine and deliver them up to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death and their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Exodus 22:24
and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not save us and we will not ride on horses. We will not say again: Our god, to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.