Lamentations 5:3

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Our mothers are as widows - The particle “as” suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Here the Prophet not only speaks in the person of the whole people, but utters also the groans and complaints of each; for this could not have...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Zion's earnest Petition for Deliverance This final poem is not so much an elegy as a prayer or meditation. The tone is more calm and spiritual tha...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Our mothers are as widows ] i.e. without protection and support. 5 Our necks are under persecution] RV 'our pursuers are upon our necks.'
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orpha...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

We are orphans and fatherless ,.... In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows. Ver. 3. We are orphans and fatherless. ] And so are become thy clients, just objects o...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Consider, and behold our reproach Which we suffer from the heathen nations. Our inheritance is turned to strangers Namely, to the Babylonians and...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

We are all of us without a king, (who is the common father of the country,) we are deprived of thy fatherly care and protection, many young children...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

We are orphans and fatherless, Our mothers are as widows. They were orphans and fatherless, and their mothers were as widows because the menfolk ha...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXEGETICAL NOTES. — Lamentations 5:2 begins to describe the substance of the reproaches. Our inheritance, the land which was promised to Abrah...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

REFLECTIONS . Jeremiah in this last elegy continues the subject in more minute details; and having no hope for the present, he consoles himself with...
The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Description of the Present Misery
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

We are orphans and fatherless, like those that have been deprived of their natural protectors; our mothers are as widows, this statement bringing o...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 22:24 ; Hosea 14:3 ; Jeremiah 18:21
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

We — We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left wit...

³ We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Related Commentaries of Lamentations 5:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lamentations 5:3