Lamentations 5:3

New Living Translation

We are orphaned and fatherless. Our mothers are widowed.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If you exploit them in any way and they cry out to me, then I will certainly hear their cry.

Exodus 22:24

My anger will blaze against you, and I will kill you with the sword. Then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

There will be more widows than the grains of sand on the seashore. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of young men. I will cause anguish and terror to come upon them suddenly.

Jeremiah 18:21

So let their children starve! Let them die by the sword! Let their wives become childless widows. Let their old men die in a plague, and let their young men be killed in battle!

Hosea 14:3

Assyria cannot save us, nor can our warhorses. Never again will we say to the idols we have made, ‘You are our gods.’ No, in you alone do the orphans find mercy.”