Lamentations 5:3

Coverdale Bible (1535)

We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and oure mothers are as the wydowes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 18:21 : 21 Therfore let their childre dye of hunger, and let them be oppressed with the swearde. Let their wyues be robbed of their childre, and become wyddowes: let their hu?bodes be slayne, let their yonge men be kylled with the swearde in the felde.
  • Exod 22:24 : 24 then shal my wrath waxe whote, so yt I shal sley you with the swerde, and youre wyues shalbe wedowes, and youre children fatherlesse,
  • Jer 15:8 : 8 I will make their wyddowes mo in nombre, then the sondes of the see. Vpon ye mothers of their children, I shal bringe a destroyer in the noone daye. Sodenly and vnawarres, shal I sende a feare vpon their cities.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assur shalbe no more oure helper, nether will we ryde vpon horses eny more. As for the workes of oure hondes, we wil nomore call vpon them: For it is thou that art oure God, thou shewest euer mercy vnto the fatherlesse.

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  • Lam 5:1-2
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    82%

    1Call to remebraunce (O LORDE) what we haue suffred, cosidre and se oure cofucion.

    2Oure enheritaunce is turned to the straungers, & oure houses to the aleauntes.

  • Lam 5:4-9
    6 verses
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    4We are fayne to drynke oure owne water for moneye, and oure owne wod must we bye with moneye.

    5Oure neckes are vnder persecucion, we are weery, and haue no rest.

    6Afore tyme we yelded oure selues to the Egipcians, and now to the Assirians, only that we might haue bred ynough.

    7Oure fathers (which now are gone) haue synned, & we must beare their wickednesse.

    8Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man delyuereth vs out of their hodes.

    9We must get or lyuynge with the parell of oure lyues, because of the drouth of the wildernesse.

  • Job 22:9
    78%

    9Thou hast sent wyddowes awaye emptie and oppressed the poore fatherlesse.

  • Neh 5:3-5
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    75%

    3Some saide: Let vs set or londes, vynyardes & houses to pledge, & take vp corne in the derth.

    4But some saide: Let vs borowe money of the kinge vpo vsury for oure londes and vynyardes.

    5Now are oure brethrens bodies as oure awne bodies, and their children as oure children: els shulde we subdue oure sonnes and doughters vnto bondage, and some of oure doughters are subdued allready, and no strength is there in oure handes, and other men shal haue oure londes and vynyardes.

  • Ps 94:6
    74%

    6They murthur the widdowe and the straunger, and put the fatherlesse to death.

  • Jer 49:11
    74%

    11Thou shalt leaue thy fatherlesse children behinde the, and I will kepe them and thy wydowes shall take their comforth in me.

  • 1 Tim 5:3
    74%

    3Honor wedowes, which are true wedowes.

  • Job 24:9
    74%

    9They spoyle the suckinge fatherlesse children, and put the poore in preson:

  • Ezek 22:7
    74%

    7In the haue they despised father & mother, in the haue they oppressed the strauger, in the haue they vexed the wyddowe & the fatherlesse.

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

    2wherthorow the poore are oppressed, on euery syde, and the innocetes of my people are there with robbed of iudgment: that wyddowes maye be youre praye, and that ye maye robbe the fatherlesse.

  • Ps 68:5
    73%

    5He is a father of ye fatherlesse, he is a defender of widdowes: eue God in his holy habitacio.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    73%

    18and singe a mournynge songe of you: that the teares maye fall out of oure eyes, and that oure eye lyddes maye gushe out of water.

    19For there is a lamentable noyse herde of Sion: O how are we so sore destroyed? O how are we so piteously confounded? We must forsake oure owne naturall countre, and we are shot out of oure owne lodgiges.

  • Job 31:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne?

    17Haue I eaten my porcion alone, that the fatherles hath had no parte with me?

  • Job 24:3
    72%

    3that dryue awaye the asse of the fatherlesse: that take ye wyddowes oxe for a pledge:

  • 2 Chr 29:9
    72%

    9For beholde, euen for the same cause fell oure fathers thorow the swerde, oure sonnes doughters and wyues were caryed awaye captyue.

  • Ps 109:9
    71%

    9Let his children be vagabundes, and begg their bred: let them seke it, as they that be destroyed.

  • Jer 3:24
    71%

    24Confucion hath deuoured oure fathers laboure from oure youth vp: yee their shepe and bullockes, their sonnes and doughters.

  • Gen 31:15
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    15& he hath couted vs as straugers, for he hath solde vs, & spent vp or wages.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    71%

    15For we are but pilgrems & straugers before the, as were all oure fathers. Oure life vpon earth is as a shadowe, and here is no abydinge.

  • Lam 5:15-17
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    71%

    15The ioye of oure herte is gone, oure mery quere is turned in to mourninge.

    16The garlande of oure heade is fallen: alas, that euer we synned so sore.

    17Therfore oure hert is full of heuynesse, & oure eyes dymme:

  • Jer 15:8
    71%

    8I will make their wyddowes mo in nombre, then the sondes of the see. Vpon ye mothers of their children, I shal bringe a destroyer in the noone daye. Sodenly and vnawarres, shal I sende a feare vpon their cities.

  • Lam 3:45
    71%

    45Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despysed amonge the Heithen.

  • Exod 22:22
    70%

    22Ye shall truble no wyddowe ner fatherlesse childe.

  • Isa 9:17
    70%

    17Therfore shal the LORDE haue no pleasure in their yonge me, nether fauoure their fatherlesse and wydowes. For thei are altogether ypocrites and wicked, and all their mouthes speake foly. After all this shal not the LORDEs wrath ceasse, but yet his honde shalbe stretched out still.

  • 1 Tim 5:5
    70%

    5But she that is a right wedowe, & desolate, putteth hir trust in God, & cotynueth in prayer and supplicacion nighte and daye.

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    70%

    9The LORDE careth for the straungers, he defendeth ye fatherlesse and wyddowe: as for the waye of ye vngodly, he turneth it vpsyde downe.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    70%

    4that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:

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  • Isa 59:10-11
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    70%

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    16Therfore do I wepe, and myne eyes gusshe out of water: for the coforter that shulde quycken me, is farre fro me. My children are dryuen awaye, for why? the enemie hath gotten the ouer honde.

  • Hos 14:3
    69%

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    20We knowlege (o LORDE) all oure my?dedes, and the synnes of oure fathers, that we haue offended ye.