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Lamentations 5:3

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5:3 We have become fatherless orphans;

our mothers have become widows.

Hosea 14:3

Context

14:3 Assyria cannot save us;

we will not ride warhorses.

We will never again say, ‘Our gods’

to what our own hands have made.

For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!” 1 

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[14:3]  1 tn Heb “For the orphan is shown compassion by you.” The present translation takes “orphan” as a figurative reference to Israel, which is specified in the translation for clarity.



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