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The mother who bore them says to them, "Go, my children, because I am a widow and forsaken.
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I brought you up with gladness; but with mourning and sorrow I have lost you, because you have sinned before the Lord God and have done what is evil in my sight.
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But now what can I do for you? For I am a widow and forsaken. Go, my children, and ask for mercy from the Lord.'
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Now I call upon you, father, as a witness in addition to the mother of the children, because they would not keep my covenant,
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so that you may bring confusion on them and bring their mother to ruin, so that they may have no offspring.
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