Lamentations 5:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are widows.

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses, and we will no longer proclaim, “Our gods! ” to the work of our hands. For the fatherless receives compassion in you.’

Jeremiah 15:8

I made their widows more numerous than the sand of the seas. I brought a destroyer at noon against the mother of young men. I suddenly released on her agitation and terrors.

Exodus 22:23

If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to me, and I will certainly hear their cry.