Bible Quotes About Raising Children

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

Lamentations 5:3

י(Yod) The hands of tenderhearted women cooked their own children, who became their food, when my people were destroyed.

Lamentations 4:10

ל(Lamed) Children say to their mothers,“Where are food and drink?” They faint like a wounded warrior in the city squares. They die slowly in their mothers’ arms.

Lamentations 2:12

ק(Qof) Get up! Cry out in the night when the night watches start! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord! Lift up your hands to him for your children’s lives; they are fainting from hunger at every street corner.

Lamentations 2:19

ג(Gimel) Even the jackals nurse their young at their breast, but my people are cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.

Lamentations 4:3

ה(He) Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy.

Lamentations 1:5

ד(Dalet) The infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth due to thirst; little children beg for bread, but no one gives them even a morsel.

Lamentations 4:4

The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

Lamentations 5:13

ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1:16

What my eyes see grieves me– all the suffering of the daughters in my city.

Lamentations 3:51