Lamentations 5:3

³ We are orphans and have no father; our mothers are as widows.

Thanks to the Kempton Project for the permission to use this New Church translation of the Word.

The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #123

123. Internal Meaning of Lamentations, Chapter 5

1-5 Lamentation to God, that there is a lack of everything of the church, (3)

6-9 because of falsities and evils. (3)

10-18 They have become infernal. (3)

19-22 Prayer to the Lord, that the former church may be restored. (11)

Thanks to the Swedenborg Foundation for the permission to use this translation.