3 we are orphans and fatherless; our mothers as widows:
Lamentations 5:3 Cross References - ECB
Exodus 22:24
24 and I kindle my wrath and slaughter you with the sword; that your women become widows and your sons orphans.
Jeremiah 15:8
8 Their widows are mighty to me above the sand of the seas: I bring on them - against the mother of the youths a ravager at noon: I fell her suddenly with terrors and anguish:
Jeremiah 18:21
21 So give their sons to the famine and pour them by the hand of the sword; so that their women bereave and become widows; and their men become slaughtered; - their youths smitten by the sword in war.
Hosea 14:3
3 Neither Ashshur saves us; nor ride we on horses: nor say we any more to the work of our hands, Our elohim: for in you the orphan is mercied.