Lamentations 5:3
King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:3 in context
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
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Grief that still hopes — mourning a ruined city, and mercy new every morning.
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