Lamentations 5:3

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

We were orphans, no father; our mothers as widows.

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:21

For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle.

Exodus 22:24

And my anger kindling, I killed you with the sword; and your wives were widows, and your sons orphans.

Hosea 14:3

Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows were many to me above the sand of the seas: I brought to them against the mother a young man laying waste at noon: I caused to fall upon her suddenly wrath and terror.

Exodus 22:23

If afflicting, thou shalt afflict him, if crying, he shall cry to me, hearing, I will hear his cry.