Lamentations 5:3

Modern King James Version

We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are as 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 wrath shall become hot, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows are more numerous about Me than the sand of the seas; I have brought on them, against a mother of a young man, a ravager at noonday; I have caused anguish and terror to fall on her suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their sons to the famine, and give them over to the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and widows, and their men be slain of death; let their young men be struck by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. Nor shall we say any more to the work of our hands, Our gods, for in You the fatherless finds mercy.