'Widows' in the Bible
and my wrath will grow hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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.
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.
Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let your widows trust in me.
We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.
There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in its midst.