Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
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Lamentations 5:2
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
Lamentations 5:3
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
Lamentations 5:5
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
Lamentations 5:11
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
Lamentations 5:14
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
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Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Jeremiah 18:21
For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not be our salvation; we will not go on horses; we will not again say to the work of our hands, You are our gods; for in you there is mercy for the child who has no father.
Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Psalms 68:5
A father to those who have no father, a judge of the widows, is God in his holy place.
Psalms 109:9
Let his children have no father, and his wife be made a widow.
Jeremiah 15:8
I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.
Jeremiah 49:11
Put in my care your children who have no father, and I will keep them safe; and let your widows put their faith in me.
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