Lamentations 5:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

We are like children whose mothers are widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

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

Exodus 22:24

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

Jeremiah 15:8

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

Jeremiah 18:21

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.

Hosea 14:3

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.”