Verse 3

We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like 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 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.