Lamentations 5:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Lamentations 5:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Lamentations 5:3 is a verse from the book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Lamentations 5:3 — KJV
“We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.”
— Lamentations 5:3 (KJV)
Lamentations 5:3 in Context — About the Book of Lamentations
Lamentations is five funeral poems over fallen Jerusalem — grief given holy structure. At its exact center burns the flame the darkness never reaches: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. It teaches us to grieve with hope.
Cross-References for Lamentations 5:3
“And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:3: fatherless, widows
“Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:3: fatherless, widows
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:3: fatherless, widows
“Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. folly: or, villany”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:3: fatherless, widows
“To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 5:3: fatherless, widows
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