Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
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Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.
Lamentations 5:4
We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.
Lamentations 5:5
Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.
Lamentations 5:6
We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.
Lamentations 5:8
Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
Lamentations 5:11
They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
Lamentations 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.
Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.
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Exodus 22:24
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”
Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.
Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Psalms 109:9
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Jeremiah 15:8
Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas. I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday. I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
Jeremiah 49:11
Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”
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