A Prayer for Restoration

Lamentations 5:3

In 11 translations

BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
KJV: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
WEB: We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
ASV: We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
LSV: Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
YLT: Orphans we have been — without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
DBY: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
DRC: We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
GNV: We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.
JPS: We are become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
LXXE: we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

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Written (Ketiv): אֵין (“there not”). Read aloud (Qere): וְאֵ֣ין (“and there not”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)

Leningrad Codex reads ְאֵ֣ין; read aloud (Qere) reads וְאֵ֣ין (“and there not”).

Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.

Original-language editions

WLC: יְתוֹמִ֤ים הָיִ֨ינוּ֙ אין אָ֔ב אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃Read aloud as (qere): וְאֵ֣ין
LXX-Br: Ὀρφανοὶ ἐγενήθημεν, οὐχ ὑπάρχει πατὴρ, μητέρες ἡμῶν ὡς αἱ χῆραι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Orphan Fatherless Orphans Lamentations, Book of Poetry Patriotism Acrostic Nation Widows Poetry, Hebrew

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, 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…
Exodus 22:24My 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 15:8I 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 14:3Assyria 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.”

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).