Lamentations 5:3

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children 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 battle.

Exodus 22:24

and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are 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 unto me, I will surely hear their cry;