Lamentations 5:3

Contemporary English Version 1995

We are like children whose mothers are widows.

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But now I am asking you to let their children starve or be killed in war. Let women lose their husbands and sons to disease and violence.

In fact, I will get so angry that I will kill your men and make widows of their wives and orphans of their children.

Assyria can't save us, and chariots can't help. So we will no longer worship the idols we have made. Our Lord, you show mercy to orphans.”

There will be more widows in Judah than grains of sand on a beach. A surprise attack at noon! And the mothers in Jerusalem mourn for their children.

If you do, they will beg for my help, and I will come to their rescue.