“Regarding divine protection Verse 3 declares: "We have become orphans, fatherless;". That is, we are destitute of divine direction, like to a paternal consolation. And: "our mothers are like widows." Since definite security is called for. As the prophet Isaiah asserts: "Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their y…”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
— Lamentations 5:3 —
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.