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Ye were sold to the nations, not for destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
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For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
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Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
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For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
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For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
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With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
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Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.
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They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
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Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
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For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
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These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.