Lamentations 5:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Exod 22:24 : 24 and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.
Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 5:1-2
2 verses
82%
1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, Our houses unto aliens.
Lam 5:4-9
6 verses
82%
4We have drunken our water for money; Our wood is sold unto us.
5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers sinned, and are not; And we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
Job 22:9
78%
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Neh 5:3-5
3 verses
75%
3Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.
4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards.
5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage [already]: neither is it in our power to help it; for other men have our fields and our vineyards.
Ps 94:6
74%
6They slay the widow and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless.
Jer 49:11
74%
11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
1 Tim 5:3
74%
3Honor widows that are widows indeed.
Job 24:9
74%
9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
Ezek 22:7
74%
7In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Isa 10:2
74%
2to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Ps 68:5
73%
5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
Jer 9:18-19
2 verses
73%
18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Job 31:16-17
2 verses
73%
16If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof
Job 24:3
72%
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
2 Chr 29:9
72%
9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Ps 109:9
71%
9Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
Jer 3:24
71%
24But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Gen 31:15
71%
15Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.
1 Chr 29:15
71%
15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Lam 5:15-17
3 verses
71%
15The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.
17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;
Jer 15:8
71%
8Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.
Lam 3:45
71%
45Thou hast made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
Exod 22:22
70%
22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Isa 9:17
70%
17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
1 Tim 5:5
70%
5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, hath her hope set on God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Ps 146:9
70%
9Jehovah preserveth the sojourners; He upholdeth the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Job 5:4-5
2 verses
70%
4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
Isa 59:10-11
2 verses
70%
10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
11We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Lam 1:16
69%
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
Hos 14:3
69%
3Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Lam 4:17-18
2 verses
69%
17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Lam 5:20
69%
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [And] forsake us so long time?
Mic 2:9
69%
9The women of my people ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their young children ye take away my glory for ever.
Lam 3:47
69%
47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.
Jer 14:20
69%
20We acknowledge, O Jehovah, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against thee.