Lamentations 5:3

God's Word

We are orphans without a father. Our mothers are like widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you do and they cry out to me, you can be sure that I will hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

I will become angry and have you killed in combat. Then your wives and children will become widows and orphans.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will be more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will send a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring anguish and terror to them.

Jeremiah 18:21

Now, hand their children over to famine. Pour out their ⌞blood⌟ by using your sword. Then their wives will become childless widows. Their husbands will be put to death. Their young men will be struck down in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us. We won’t ride on horses anymore. We will never again say that the things our hands have made are our gods. You love orphans.”