We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
Our mothers are as widows - The particle "as" suggests that the whole verse is metaphorical. Our distress and desolation is comparable only to that of fatherless orphans or wives just bereaved of their husbands.
5:3 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 without an earthly parent.