Lamentations 5:3

Modern

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

Traditional

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

Literal

Fatherless we have become, and those with no father; our mothers are now like widows.

Latin

Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostræ quasi viduæ.

Hebrew

English

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

This chapter is a sincere prayer asking for restoration (compare Daniel 9:4–19).

Exodus 22:24
My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 15:8
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”