Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.
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.
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 inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners. 3 Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows. 4 Our water for money we have drunk, Our wood for a price doth come.
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 18:21
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,
Exodus 22:24
and Mine anger hath burned, and I have slain you by the sword, and your wives have been widows, and your sons orphans.
Jeremiah 15:8
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.
Hosea 14:3
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.'