Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.
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- Exodus 22:24Rank 1 from verse 3
- Jeremiah 18:21Rank 2 from verse 3
21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
21†*Therefore deliuer vp their children to the famine, and powre out their blood by the force of the sword, and let their wiues be bereaued of their children and be widowes, and let their men be put to death, let their yong men be slaine by the sword in battell.
- Hosea 14:3Rank 3 from verse 3
3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
3Asshur shall not saue vs, we will not ride vpon horses, neither will wee say any more to the work of our hands, Yee are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.
- Jeremiah 15:8Rank 4 from verse 3
8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
8‖Their widowes are increased to me aboue the sand of the seas: I haue brought vpon them against the mother of the yongmen, a spoiler at noone day: I haue caused him to fall vpon it suddenly, and terrors vpon the citie.
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Lamentations 5:3
Children or persons bereaved of, abandoned by, or left without a father or parents and therefore lacking normal parental protection and provision.
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Sense 1: Female parents. Sense 2: Women regarded as sources, protectors, or ancestral figures.
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Women whose husbands have died.
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2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliants.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
3We are orphanes and fatherlesse, our mothers are as widowes.
Selected passage4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
4†We haue drunken our water for money, our wood is sold vnto vs.