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Lamentations 5:3

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial

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KJV ORIGINAL

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

We've lost everything — no fathers to guide us, and our mothers are left alone like widows.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Sometimes life leaves you feeling completely abandoned and broken.

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If you want to follow me, your love for me has to be so intense that your love for your parents, spouse, kids, siblings — even your own life — looks like hate in comparison. That's the level of commitment we're talking about here.

This is why a man will leave his parents behind and stick with his wife through everything.

Anyone who's walked away from their house, siblings, parents, spouse, kids, or property because they chose to follow me will get back a hundred times more than what they gave up, plus eternal life.

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