Lamentations 5:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you afflict them in any way and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24

And My wrath shall burn; I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will increase the number of their widows more than the sand of the seas. I will bring upon them, [both] against the mother of young men and the young men [themselves], a destroyer at noonday. I will cause anguish and terrors to fall upon her [Jerusalem] suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine; give them over to the power of the sword. And let their wives become childless and widows; let their men meet death by pestilence, their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

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 [idols], You are our gods. For in You [O Lord] the fatherless find love, pity, and mercy.