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Lamentations 5:3
Lamentations 5:3 is verse 3 of Lamentations chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
World English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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Lamentations 5:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible
1 Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 22:24My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Hosea 14:3Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”