Lamentations 5:3

Modern English Version

We have become orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you afflict them in any way and they cry at all to Me, I will surely hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

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

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will increase before Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, a destroyer at noonday; I will suddenly bring down on her sorrow and terrors.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore, deliver up their children to the famine and pour out their blood by the power of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children and become widows and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria will not save us, we will not ride on horses. We will no longer say, ‘Our God,’ to the work of our hands. In You the orphan finds mercy.”