King James Version
Lamentations 5:3 in the King James Version says “We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.”
Lamentations 5:3 · King James Version
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. is: Heb. cometh for price
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. Our: Heb. On our necks are we persecuted
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“our mothers”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
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