Lamentations 5:3

A Conservative Version

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword, and let their wives become childless, and widows, and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men smitten of the sword in battl

Exodus 22:24

and my wrath shall grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us. We will not ride upon horses, nor will we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods. For in thee the fatherless finds mercy.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows have increased to me above the sand of the seas. I have brought upon them, against the mother of the young men, a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall upon her suddenly.

Exodus 22:23

If thou afflict them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry,