Jeremiæ 5:3

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Pupilli facti sumus absque patre,
matres nostræ quasi viduæ.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Domine, oculi tui respiciunt fidem : percussisti eos, et non doluerunt : attrivisti eos, et renuerunt accipere disciplinam : induraverunt facies suas supra petram, et noluerunt reverti.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Pupilli facti sumus absque patre, matres nostrae quasi viduae.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 22:24, Jeremiah 18:21, Hosea 14:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 109:9 - General Jeremiah 6:12 - And their John 14:18 - comfortless

Gill's Notes on the Bible

We are orphans and fatherless,.... 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.