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Lamentations 5:3

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

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  1. Lamentations 5:1

    Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  2. Lamentations 5:2

    Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

  3. Lamentations 5:4

    We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

  4. Lamentations 5:5

    Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.