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Don't any of you rejoice over me, a widow deserted by many. My children avoided God's Law, so I was stripped bare because of their sins.
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They didn't acknowledge God's requirements, walk in the ways of God's commandments, or follow the paths in which his righteousness trained them.
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Neighbors of Zion, come! Remember the exile my sons and daughters suffered, brought on them by the eternal one.
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God brought a nation from far away against them, a nation that is shameless and speaks a strange language, that showed no respect for the elderly or pity for the child.
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It took away the widow's dearly loved sons and deprived the lonely woman of her daughters.