Lamentations 5:3
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 18:21 : 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.
- Exod 22:24 : 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.
- Jer 15:8 : 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.
- Hos 14:3 : 3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon rses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
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4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks are under persecution: we bour, and have no rest.
6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
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9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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3 Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, viyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4 There were also that said, We have borrowed moy for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and viyards.
5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: ither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and viyards.
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6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
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11 Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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3 Honour widows that are widows indeed.
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9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
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7 In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
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2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
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18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
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16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
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3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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9 For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
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9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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15 Are we not counted of him stranrs? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
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15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
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15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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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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45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
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22 Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
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17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon rses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
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17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
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20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
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47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desotion and destruction.
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20 We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.