THEOSISMacarius the Egyptian
As a result, the soul is distanced from God, and indeed we are left as orphans without our Heavenly Father. This pertains to the spiritual messages and letters.
Lamentations 5:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
יְתוֹמִ֤ים הָיִ֙ינוּ֙ אין וְאֵ֣ין אָ֔ב אִמֹּתֵ֖ינוּ כְּאַלְמָנֽוֹת׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Jer 18:21Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.
- Ex 22:24And my rage shall be enkindled, and I will strike you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
- Jer 15:8Their widows are multiplied unto me above the sand of the sea: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young man a spoiler at noonday: I have cast a terror on a sudden upon the cities.
- Hos 14:3Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.