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Lamentations 5:3 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows. "

Lamentations 5:3

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1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

4 We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.

5 Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

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"For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this."

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Lamentations 5:1

"Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach."

Lamentations 5:2

"Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens."

Lamentations 5:4

"We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us."

Lamentations 5:5

"Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest."

Lamentations 5:6

"We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread."

Lamentations 5:7

"Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities."

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