Lamentations 5:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

We be made fatherless children without a father; our mothers be as widows.

Cross References

Exodus 22:23

If ye hurt them, they shall cry to me, and I shall hear the cry of them,

Exodus 22:24

and my great vengeance shall have indignation on you, and I shall smite you with sword, and your wives shall be widows, and your sons shall be fatherless.

Jeremiah 15:8

The widows thereof be multiplied to me above the gravel of the sea; and I brought into them a destroyer in midday on the mother of a young man, I sent dread suddenly on [the] cities.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore give thou the sons of them into hunger, and lead forth them into the hands of [the] sword; the wives of them be made without children, and be made widows, and the husbands of them be slain by death; the young men of them be pierced together by sword in battle.

Hosea 14:3

Assur shall not save us, we shall not go upon horse; and we shall no more say, Our gods be the works of our hands; for thou shalt have mercy on that motherless child, which is in thee.