Lamentations 5:3
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.
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Referenced Verses
- Jer 18:21 : 21 So let their children die of starvation. Let them be cut down by the sword. Let their wives lose their husbands and children. Let the older men die of disease and the younger men die by the sword in battle.
- Exod 22:24 : 24 and my anger will burn and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Jer 15:8 : 8 Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
- Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say,‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
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- Lam 5:1-22 verses82%
1The People of Jerusalem Pray: O LORD, reflect on what has happened to us; consider and look at our disgrace.
2Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.
- Lam 5:4-96 verses82%
4We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.
5We are pursued– they are breathing down our necks; we are weary and have no rest.
6We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria in order to buy food to eat.
7Our forefathers sinned and are dead, but we suffer their punishment.
8Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their power.
9At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the wilderness.
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9you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed.
- Neh 5:3-53 verses75%
3There were others who said,“We are putting up our fields, our vineyards, and our houses as collateral in order to obtain grain during the famine.”
4Then there were those who said,“We have borrowed money to pay our taxes to the king on our fields and our vineyards.
5And now, though we share the same flesh and blood as our fellow countrymen, and our children are just like their children, still we have found it necessary to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have been subjected to slavery, while we are powerless to help, since our fields and vineyards now belong to other people.”
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6They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
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11Leave your orphans behind and I will keep them alive. Your widows too can depend on me.”
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3Honor widows who are truly in need.
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9The fatherless child is snatched from the breast, the infant of the poor is taken as a pledge.
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7They have treated father and mother with contempt within you; they have oppressed the resident foreigner among you; they have wronged the orphan and the widow within you.
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2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.
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5He is a father to the fatherless and an advocate for widows. God rules from his holy dwelling place.
- Jer 9:18-192 verses73%
18I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.
19For the sound of wailing is soon to be heard in Zion,‘We are utterly ruined! We are completely disgraced! For we have left our land! For our houses have been torn down!’”
- Job 31:16-172 verses73%
16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
17If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans–
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3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.
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9Look, our fathers died violently and our sons, daughters, and wives were carried off because of this.
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9May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!
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24From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.
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15Hasn’t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!
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15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
- Lam 5:15-173 verses71%
15Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17Because of this, our hearts are sick; because of these things, we can hardly see through our tears.
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8Their widows will become in my sight more numerous than the grains of sand on the seashores. At noontime I will bring a destroyer against the mothers of their young men. I will cause anguish and terror to fall suddenly upon them.
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45You make us like filthy scum in the estimation of the nations.
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22“You must not afflict any widow or orphan.
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17So the Lord was not pleased with their young men, he took no pity on their orphans and widows; for the whole nation was godless and did wicked things, every mouth was speaking disgraceful words. Despite all this, his anger does not subside, and his hand is ready to strike again.
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5But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
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9The LORD protects the resident foreigner; he lifts up the fatherless and the widow, but he opposes the wicked.
- Job 5:4-52 verses70%
4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.
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10We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.
11We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
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16ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.
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3Assyria cannot save us; we will not ride warhorses. We will never again say,‘Our gods’ to what our own hands have made. For only you will show compassion to Orphan Israel!”
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17ע(Ayin)The People of Jerusalem Lament: Our eyes continually failed us as we looked in vain for help. From our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not rescue us.
18צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!
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20Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
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9You wrongly evict widows among my people from their cherished homes. You defraud their children of their prized inheritance.
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47Panic and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.
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20LORD, we confess that we have been wicked. We confess that our ancestors have done wrong. We have indeed sinned against you.