Psalm 109:9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

May his children be orphans, and his wife a widow.

Cross References

Exodus 22:24

my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword, let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

Lamentations 5:3

We have become orphans, fatherless; our mothers are like widows.