Exo 22:24, Deu 32:25, Jer 15:2-3, 8, 16:3-4, Lam 5:3 | ESV | STEP | and my wrath will burn , and I will kill you with the sword , and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless .

Exodus 22:24

24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and ^ayour wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.

Deuteronomy 32:25

25 ^bOutdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

Jeremiah 15:2-3

2 And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^c“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’
3 ^dI will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^ethe birds of the air ^fand the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy.

Jeremiah 15:8

8 I have made their widows more in number
than ^gthe sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
fall upon them suddenly.

Jeremiah 16:3-4

3 For thus says the Lord concerning the sons and daughters who are born in this place, and concerning the mothers who bore them and the fathers who fathered them in this land: 4 ^hThey shall die of deadly diseases. ⁱThey shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. ^jThey shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. ^kThey shall perish by the sword and by famine, ^land their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

Lamentations 5:3

3 We have become orphans, fatherless;
our mothers are like widows.