Cross references
Lamentations 5:3
We have become fatherless orphans;
our mothers are widows.
Lamentations 5:3 has 4 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 22:24 (4 votes) and Jeremiah 18:21 (4 votes). 8 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Exodus 22 to John 14.
Which verses does Lamentations 5:3 point to?
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- Exodus 22:244 votes
My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
- Jeremiah 18:214 votes
Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
- Jeremiah 15:83 votes
I will make their widows more numerous than the sand of the sea. I will bring a destroyer at noon against the mothers of young men. I will suddenly bring upon them anguish and dismay.
- Hosea 14:33 votes
Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
Which verses point to Lamentations 5:3?
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