Lamentations 5:3

New International Reader's Version

Our fathers have been killed. Our mothers don’t have husbands.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you do, they might cry out to me. I will certainly hear them.

Exodus 22:24

And I will get angry. I will kill you with a sword. Your wives will become widows. Your children’s fathers will die.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will increase the number of their widows. There will be more of them than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noon I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of the young men among my people. All at once I will bring down on them great suffering and terror.

Jeremiah 18:21

So let their children die of hunger. Let my enemies be killed in war. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let their men be put to death. Let their young men be killed in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria can’t save us. We won’t trust in our war horses. Our own hands have made statues of gods. But we will never call them our gods again. We are like children whose fathers have died. But you show us your tender love.”