Lamentations 5:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

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  • 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 grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; 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 noon: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
  • Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria will not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will we say anymore to the work of our hands, You are our gods: for in you the orphan finds mercy.

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    1 Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us; consider and behold our disgrace.

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    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

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    3 Others said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses to buy grain because of the famine.

    4 There were also those who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tax, against our lands and vineyards.

    5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and indeed, we bring into bondage our sons and daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are already in bondage; nor is it in our power to redeem them, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

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    6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

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    3 Honor widows who are truly widows.

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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.

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