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Lamentations 5:3

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

We are orphans and fatherless; i.e. "We are like the most desolate of beings," as the Targum already explains it. Hence in the next clause the mothers of Israel ere likened to widows.

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