Lamentations 5:3
We ben maad fadirles children with out fadir; oure modris ben as widewis.
Bible (Wycliffe)
In The King James Version
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
In Context
2Oure eritage is turned to aliens, oure housis ben turned to straungers.
4We drunken oure watir for monei, we bouyten oure trees for siluer.
Cross References
Exodus 22:24and my greet veniaunce schal haue indignacioun, and Y schal smyte you with swerd, and youre wyues schulen be widewis, and youre sones schulen be fadirles.
Jeremiah 18:21Therfor yyue thou the sones of hem in to hungur, and lede forth hem in to the hondis of swerd; the wyues of hem be maad with out children, and be maad widewis, and the hosebondis of hem be slayn bi deth; the yonge men of hem be persid togidere bi swerd in batel.