Lamentations 5:3

New English Translation

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you afflict them in any way and they cry 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 be widows and your children will be fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.

Jeremiah 18:21

So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”