Lamentations 5:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

We are fatherles, euen without father, and our mothers are as widowes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore, deliuer vp their children to famine, and let them drop away by the force of the sworde, and let their wiues be robbed of their children, and be widowes: and let their husbandes be put to death, and let their yong men be slayne by the sword in the battell.
  • Exod 22:24 : 24 Then shal my wrath be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wiues shall be widowes, and your children fatherlesse.
  • Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widdowes are increased by mee aboue the sande of the sea: I haue brought vpon them, and against the assembly of the yong men a destroyer at noone day: I haue caused him to fal vpon them, and the citie suddenly, and speedily.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 (14:4) Asshur shal not saue vs, neither wil we ride vpon horses, neither will we say any more to the worke of our handes, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherlesse findeth mercie.

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    1Remember, O Lorde, what is come vpon vs: consider, and behold our reproche.

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    4Wee haue drunke our water for money, and our wood is solde vnto vs.

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    6We haue giuen our handes to the Egyptians, and to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

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    9Wee gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

  • Job 22:9
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    9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken.

  • Neh 5:3-5
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    3And there were that saide, We must gage our landes, and our vineyardes, and our houses, and take vp corne for the famine.

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    6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murther the fatherlesse.

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    11Leaue thy fathers children, and I will preserue them aliue, and let thy widowes trust in me.

  • 1 Tim 5:3
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    3Honour widowes, which are widowes in deede.

  • Job 24:9
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    9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.

  • Ezek 22:7
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    7In thee haue they despised father and mother: in the middes of thee haue they oppressed the stranger: in thee haue they vexed the fatherlesse and the widowe.

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    5He is a Father of the fatherlesse, & a Iudge of the widowes, euen God in his holy habitation.

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    18And let them make haste, & let them take vp a lamentation for vs, that our eyes may cast out teares & our eye liddes gush out of water.

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    16If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

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    3They leade away the asse of the fatherles: and take the widowes oxe to pledge.

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    15The ioy of our heart is gone, our daunce is turned into mourning.

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