Lamentations 5:3

Good News Translation

Our fathers have been killed by the enemy, and now our mothers are widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you do, I, the Lord, will answer them when they cry out to me for help,

Exodus 22:24

and I will become angry and kill you in war. Your wives will become widows, and your children will be fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

There are more widows in your land than grains of sand by the sea. I killed your young men in their prime and made their mothers suffer. I suddenly struck them with anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 18:21

But now, Lord, let their children starve to death; let them be killed in war. Let the women lose their husbands and children; let the men die of disease and the young men be killed in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria can never save us, and war horses cannot protect us. We will never again say to our idols that they are our God. O Lord, you show mercy to those who have no one else to turn to.”