Lamentations 5:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you take advantage of them at all, and they cry at all to me, I will surely hear their cry;

Exodus 22:24

and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas; I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Ashur can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy.*