Lamentations 5:3
We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 18:21 : 21 Therfore, let their children dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the sworde: Let their wiues be robbed of their children, and become widowes, let their husbandes be slayne, let their young men be kylled with the sworde in the fielde.
- Exod 22:24 : 24 And then wyl my wrath waxe hotte, and I wyll kyll you with the sworde, & your wyues shalbe widowes, and your chyldren fatherlesse.
- Jer 15:8 : 8 I haue made their widowes mo in number then the sandes of the sea, vpon the mothers of their children dyd I bryng a destroyer in the noone day: sodaynly and vnawares did I sende a feare vpon their cities.
- Hos 14:3 : 3 Asshur shalbe no more our helper, neither will we ride vpon horses any more, neither wyll we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Lam 5:1-22 verses82%
1 Call to remembraunce (O Lorde) what we haue suffred, consider and see our confusion.
2 Our inheritaunce is turned to the straungers, and our houses to the aliaunts.
- Lam 5:4-96 verses82%
4 We are fayne to drinke our owne water for money, and our owne wood must we buy for money.
5 Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.
6 Aforetime we yeelded our selues to the Egyptians, and nowe to the Assyrians, onlye that we might haue bread inough.
7 Our fathers (which nowe are gone) haue sinned, and we must beare their wickednesse.
8 Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.
9 We must get our liuing with the perill of our liues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.
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9 Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken.
- Neh 5:3-53 verses75%
3 Some also there were that saide: Let vs set our landes, vineyardes, and houses to pledge, and take vp corne in the dearth.
4 But some there were that saide: We haue borowed money for the kinges tribute, and that vpon our landes & vineyardes.
5 And now our fleshe is as the fleshe of our brethren, and our children as their children: and loe we bring into subiection our sonnes and our daughters as seruauntes, and some of our daughters are subdued vnto bondage alredie, and no strength is there in our handes to redeeme them, and other men haue our landes and vineyardes.
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6 They murther the wyddowe and the straunger: & put the fatherlesse to death.
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11 Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse chyldren behynde thee, and I wyll kepe them, and thy wydowes shal take their comfort in me.
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3 Honour wydowes, whiche are wydowes in deede.
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9 They plucke the fatherlesse from the brest, and take the pledge from the poore.
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7 In thee haue they dispised father and mother, in thee haue they oppressed the straunger, in thee haue they vexed the widowe and the fatherlesse.
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2 Where thorowe the poore are put from their right, and my seelie people robbed of iudgement, that wydowes may be their pray, and that they may rob the fatherlesse.
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5 He is a father of the fatherlesse, and the iudge of widdowes: he is the Lord in his holy habitation.
- Jer 9:18-192 verses73%
18 And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water.
19 For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.
- Job 31:16-172 verses73%
16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:
17 If I haue eaten my morsell alone, that ye fatherlesse hath not eaten therof:
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3 They driue away the asse of the fatherlesse, and take the wydowes oxe for a pledge:
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9 For loe, our fathers were ouerthrowen with the sword, and our sonnes, our daughters, and our wyues were caried away captiue for the same cause.
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9 Let his chyldren be fatherlesse: and his wyfe a wydowe.
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24 Confusion hath deuoured our fathers labour from our youth vp, yea their sheepe and bullockes, their sonnes and daughters.
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15 Doth not he count vs euen as straungers? for he hath solde vs, & hath quite deuoured also our money.
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15 For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.
- Lam 5:15-173 verses71%
15 The ioy of our heart is gone, our melodious meeting is turned into mourning.
16 The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.
17 Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.
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8 I haue made their widowes mo in number then the sandes of the sea, vpon the mothers of their children dyd I bryng a destroyer in the noone day: sodaynly and vnawares did I sende a feare vpon their cities.
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45 Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despised among the people.
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22 Ye shall trouble no wydowe nor fatherlesse chylde.
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17 Therefore shall the Lorde haue no pleasure in their young men, neither haue pitie of their fatherlesse and wydowes: for they are altogether hypocrites and wicked, and al their mouthes speake folly: After all this is not the Lordes wrath ceassed, but yet his hand is stretched out styll.
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5 And she that is a wydowe in deede, and left alone, hopeth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers nyght and day.
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9 God taketh strangers into his custodie, he releeueth the fatherlesse and the widdowe: as for the way of the vngodlye he turneth it vpsyde downe.
- Job 5:4-52 verses70%
4 His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them.
5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,
- Isa 59:10-112 verses70%
10 We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall, we grope euen as one that hath none eyes, we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night, in the falling places, lyke men that are halfe dead.
11 We roare all like beares, and mourne still like doues: we looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.
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16 Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.
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3 Asshur shalbe no more our helper, neither will we ride vpon horses any more, neither wyll we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.
- Lam 4:17-182 verses69%
17 Wherefore yet our eyes fayled vs, whyles we looked for our vayne helpe, seeing we euer wayted vpon a people that coulde do vs no good.
18 They lay so sharpe wayte for vs, that we can not go safe vpon the streetes, for our ende is come, our dayes are fulfilled, our ende is here.
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20 Wherefore wylt thou styll forget vs, and forsake vs so long?
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9 The women of my people haue ye shut out from their pleasaunt houses, and taken away myne excellent giftes from their children.
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47 Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction.
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20 We knowledge (O Lorde) all our misdeedes, and the sinnes of our fathers: for we haue offended thee.