Lamentations 5:3

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We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

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  • Jer 18:21 : 21 So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.
  • Exod 22:24 : 24 If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.
  • Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows have increased to Me more than the sand of the seas. I have brought against them a destroyer at noon, and I have caused anguish and terror to fall upon the city suddenly.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: 'Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the sacrifice of our lips.'

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    1Remember, LORD, what has happened to us; look and see our disgrace.

    2Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

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    4We must pay for the water we drink; even our wood comes at a price.

    5We are pursued with burdens upon our necks; we are weary and find no rest.

    6We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

    7Our ancestors sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

    8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

    9We risk our lives to bring in our bread because of the sword in the wilderness.

  • Job 22:9
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    9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • Neh 5:3-5
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    3Others were saying, 'We have had to mortgage our fields, vineyards, and houses to get grain during the famine.'

    4Still others were saying, 'We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.'

    5'Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our fellow Israelites, and our children are just like theirs, we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, and we are powerless to do anything about it, since our fields and vineyards now belong to others.'

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    6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

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    11Leave your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in me.

  • 1 Tim 5:3
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    3Honor widows who are truly widows.

  • Job 24:9
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    9They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

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    7Within you, they have treated father and mother with contempt; they have oppressed the foreigner in your midst; they have wronged the orphan and the widow.

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    2They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

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    5Sing to God, sing praises to His name; prepare the way for Him who rides through the deserts—His name is Yah, and rejoice before Him.

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    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

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    9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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    24From our youth, shame has consumed all that our ancestors worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

  • Gen 31:15
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    15Does he not regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even spent what was paid for us.

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