Lamentations 5:3

New International Version

We have become fatherless, our mothers are widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

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

Exodus 22:24

My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. At midday I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men; suddenly I will bring down on them anguish and terror.

Jeremiah 18:21

So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives be made childless and widows; let their men be put to death, their young men slain by the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount warhorses. We will never again say ‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made, for in you the fatherless find compassion.”