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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 Zion: 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 by 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 Zion 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 afar, 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.
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"But how can I help you?
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For He that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies.