Lamentations 5:3

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

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

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

So now make their children starve to death! Let their enemies kill them with swords. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let their men die from disease, and let their young men be killed in battle.

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.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us. We will not ride on war horses. We will never again say, ‘Our God’ to something we made with our hands. This is because you are the one who shows mercy to orphans.”

Jeremiah 15:8

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

Exodus 22:23

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