Teks -- Lamentations 5:3 (NET)

5:3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Lam 5:3 - We

We are all of us without a king, (our common father) we are deprived of thy fatherly protection, and many young children among us are left without an earthly parent.

JFB: Lam 5:3 - fatherless

Our whole land is full of orphans [CALVIN]. Or, "we are fatherless," being abandoned by Thee our "Father" (Jer 3:19), [GROTIUS].

Calvin: Lam 5:3 - NO PHRASE

Here the Prophet not only speaks in the person of the whole people, but utters also the groans and complaints of each; for this could not have been suitable to the whole Church, as he speaks of fathers and mothers. We hence see that this verse does not apply to the whole body, but to individual members, though every one of the people might have said that widows and orphans were everywhere seen.

Now, this usually happens when a nation is consumed either by pestilence or by war; for in one battle all do not so fall that a whole country becomes full of orphans. But the Prophet sets forth here the orphanage and widowhood occasioned through the continued vengeance of God, for he had not ceased to afflict the people until by degrees they were exhausted. It was, indeed, a sad spectacle to see among the chosen people so many widows, and also so many children deprived of their fathers. It follows, —

TSK: Lam 5:3

Exo 22:24; Jer 18:21; Hos 14:3

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Lam 5:3 - Our mothers are as widows

We are all of us without a king, (who is the common father of the country,) we are deprived of thy fatherly care and protection, many young children amongst us are left without an earthly parent.

Our mothers are as widows either our great cities are like widows, wanting magistrates; or, our women that were married are left widows.

Haydock: Lam 5:3 - Father

Father. Many had none surviving, and all had lost their king. (Worthington)

Gill: Lam 5:3 - We are orphans and fatherless // our mothers are as widows

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.