What does Lamentations 5:3 mean?

Lamentations 5:3 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Lamentations 5:3 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

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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