Lamentations 5:3

New Century Version

We are like orphans with no father; our mothers are like widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you do, and they cry out to me for help, I certainly will hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

And I will be very angry and kill you in war. Then your wives will become widows, and your children will become orphans.

Jeremiah 15:8

There are more widows than grains of sand in the sea. I brought a destroyer at noontime against the mothers of the young men of Judah. I suddenly brought pain and fear on the people of Judah.

Jeremiah 18:21

So now, let their children starve, and let their enemies kill them with swords. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let the men from Judah be put to death and the young men be killed with swords in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us, nor will we trust in our horses. We will not say again, ‘Our gods,’ to the things our hands have made. You show mercy to orphans.”