Lamentations 5:3
"We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
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- Exodus 22:24
"And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 18:21
"Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle."
Read in chapter → - Hosea 14:3
"Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 15:8
"Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city."
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