Lamentations 5:3

Legacy Standard Bible

We have become orphans without a father; Our mothers are like widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

And if you indeed afflict him, and if he earnestly cries out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

Exodus 22:24

and My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

“Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man, A destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her Anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, give their children over to famine And deliver them up to the power of the sword; And let their wives become childless and widowed. Let their men also be smitten to death, Their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

“Assyria will not save us; We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say again, ‘Our god,’ To the work of our hands; For in You the orphan finds compassion.”