5
Take courage, my people, who perpetuate Israel's name!
6
It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God.
7
For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
8
You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.
9
For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God, and she said: Listen, you neighbors of Zion, God has brought great sorrow upon me;
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