We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
      2. Their state and nation are brought into a condition like that of widows and orphans (Lamentations 5:3; Lamentations 5:3): "We are fatherless (that is, helpless); we have none to protect us, to provide for us, to take any care of us. Our king, who is the father of the country, is cut off; nay, God our Father seems to have forsaken us and cast us off; our mothers, our cities, that were as fruitful mothers in Israel, are now as widows, are as wives whose husbands are dead, destitute of comfort, and exposed to wrong and injury, and this is our reproach; for we who made a figure are now looked on with contempt."