Lamentations 5:3

WEB

³We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

KJV

³We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

BSB

³We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

FBV

³We have lost our fathers, and our mothers are widows.

Extra References

Jeremiah 18:21

²¹Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

Exodus 22:24

²⁴and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

⁸Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

Hosea 14:3

³Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”