Lamentations 5:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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High concordance with source wording
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Widely recognized and referenced KJV text

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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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 horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 5:1-2
2 verses
82%
1Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Lam 5:4-9
6 verses
82%
4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Job 22:9
78%
9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Neh 5:3-5
3 verses
75%
3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.
5Yet 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: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.
Ps 94:6
74%
6They slay{H8799)} the widow and the stranger, and murder{H8762)} the fatherless.
Jer 49:11
74%
11Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
1 Tim 5:3
74%
3Honour widows that are widows indeed.
Job 24:9
74%
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Ezek 22:7
74%
7In 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.
Isa 10:2
74%
2To 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!
Ps 68:5
73%
5A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Jer 9:18-19
2 verses
73%
18And 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.
19For 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.
Job 31:16-17
2 verses
73%
16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
17Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
Job 24:3
72%
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
2 Chr 29:9
72%
9For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.
Ps 109:9
71%
9Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Jer 3:24
71%
24For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
Gen 31:15
71%
15Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
1 Chr 29:15
71%
15For 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.
Lam 5:15-17
3 verses
71%
15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Jer 15:8
71%
8Their 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.
Lam 3:45
71%
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Exod 22:22
70%
22Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.
Isa 9:17
70%
17Therefore 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.
1 Tim 5:5
70%
5Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.
Ps 146:9
70%
9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Job 5:4-5
2 verses
70%
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Isa 59:10-11
2 verses
70%
10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
11We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Lam 1:16
69%
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Hos 14:3
69%
3Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses: neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods: for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
Lam 4:17-18
2 verses
69%
17As 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.
18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
Lam 5:20
69%
20Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Mic 2:9
69%
9The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever.
Lam 3:47
69%
47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
Jer 14:20
69%
20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.