Lamentations 5:3

New King James Version

We have become orphans and waifs, Our mothers are like 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 will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

Their widows will be increased to Me more than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, Against the mother of the young men, A plunderer at noonday; I will cause anguish and terror to fall on them suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, And pour out their blood By the force of the sword; Let their wives become widows And bereaved of their children. Let their men be put to death, Their young men be slain By the sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assyria shall not save us, We will not ride on horses, Nor will we say anymore to the work of our hands, ‘You are our gods.’ For in You the fatherless finds mercy.”