Lamentations 5:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

New Living Translation
We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.

English Standard Version
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Berean Study Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

New American Standard Bible
We have become orphans, without a father; Our mothers are like widows.

NASB 1995
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

NASB 1977
We have become orphans without a father, Our mothers are like widows.

Amplified Bible
We have become orphans without a father; Our mothers are like widows.

Christian Standard Bible
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.

Contemporary English Version
We are like children whose mothers are widows.

Good News Translation
Our fathers have been killed by the enemy, and now our mothers are widows.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.

International Standard Version
We are now orphans—without fathers— and our mothers are like widows.

NET Bible
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

New King James Version
We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like widows.

King James 2000 Bible
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

New Heart English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.

World English Bible
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

American King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

American Standard Version
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

A Faithful Version
We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as widows.

Darby Bible Translation
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

English Revised Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Webster's Bible Translation
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and oure mothers are as the wydowes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.

Young's Literal Translation
Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.

Smith's Literal Translation
We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.

Catholic Public Domain Version
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
We were orphans without a father, and our mothers were as widows

Lamsa Bible
We have become orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
We are become orphans and fatherless, Our mothers are as widows.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.
















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