Lamentations 5:3

Easy To Read Version

We have become orphans.\par We have no father.\par Our mothers have become like widows.\par

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you do anything wrong to those widows or orphans, then I will know it. I will hear about their suffering.

Exodus 22:24

And I will be very angry. I will kill you with a sword. Then your wives will become widows. And your children will become orphans.

Jeremiah 15:8

Many women will lose their husbands.\par There will be more widows\par than there is sand in the sea.\par I will bring a destroyer at noontime.\par The destroyer will attack the mothers\par of the young men of Judah.\par I will bring pain and fear\par on the people of Judah.\par I will make this happen very quickly.\par

Jeremiah 18:21

So make their children starve in a famine. {\cf2\super [154]} \par Let their enemies defeat them with swords.\par Let their wives be without children.\par Let the men from Judah be put to death.\par Make their wives into widows.\par Let the men from Judah be put to death.\par Let the young men be killed in battle.\par

Hosea 14:3

“Assyria will not save us.\par We will not ride on \{war\} horses.\par We will never again say, ‘Our God’\par to something we made with our hands.\par Why? Because you are the One who\par shows mercy to orphans. {\cf2\super [148]} ”\par