Lamentations 5:3
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3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.
Jeremiah 18:21
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21 Therefore give their children over to famine;
hurl them out to the power of the sword;
let their wives become childless and widowed.
May their men meet death by pestilence,
their youths be slain by the sword in battle.(A)
Exodus 22:24
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24 my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children orphans.(A)
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Hosea 14:3
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3 Assyria shall not save us;
we will not ride upon horses;
we will say no more, ‘Our God,’
to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy.”(A)
Jeremiah 15:8
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8 Their widows became more numerous
than the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of youths
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon her suddenly.
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