We are orphans and fatherless.
Our mothers are as widows.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Lamentations 5:3 in context
Lamentations 5:1–6
1
Remember, LORD, what has come on us.
Look, and see our reproach.
2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
3
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We are orphans and fatherless.
Our mothers are as widows.
4
We must pay for water to drink.
Our wood is sold to us.
5
Our pursuers are on our necks.
We are weary, and have no rest.
6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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