King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Lamentations 5) Lamentations 5:3 KJV
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
1
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.*
5
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.*
6
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.