11
With joy I nurtured them, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
12
Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and bereaved of many; I was left desolate because of the sins of my children, because they turned away from the law of God.
13
They had no regard for his statutes; they did not walk in the ways of God's commandments, or tread the paths his righteousness showed them.
14
Let the neighbors of Zion come; remember the capture of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
15
For he brought a distant nation against them, a nation ruthless and of a strange language, which had no respect for the aged and no pity for a child.
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