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Lamentations 5:3 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 5 · verse 3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.Lamentations 5:3 · King James Version
Lamentations 5:3 in context
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherlessʼayina non-entityH369 →
- fatherlessʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- orphansyâthôwma bereaved personH3490 →
- mothersʼêma motherH517 →
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Is any afflicted? let him pray; and let him in prayer pour out his complaint to God, and make known before him his trouble. The people of God do so here; being overwhelmed with grief, they give vent to their sorrows at the footstool of the throne of grace, and so give themselves ease.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-16