Lamentations 5:3

“We are orphans and fatherless, etc.] In every sense; in a natural sense, their fathers having been cut off by the sword, famine, or pestilence; in a civil sense, their king being taken from them; and in a religious sense, God having forsaken them for their sins: our mothers [are] as widows; either really so, their husbands being dead; or were as if they had no husbands, they not being able to provide for them, protect and deferred them. The Targum adds, “whose husbands are gone to the cities of the sea, and it is doubtful whether they are alive.” Some understand this politically, of their cities being desolate and defenceless.”

“fatherless--Our whole land is full of orphans [CALVIN]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (Jer 3:19), [GROTIUS].”

“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. return to 'Top of Page'”

“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. Lamentations 5:4”

“Exo 22:24; Jer 18:21; Hos 14:3 Lamentations 5:4”