Verse 3

We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.
• Exod 22:24 : 24 and my wrath will grow 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 on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday: I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
• Hos 14:3 : 3 Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."