12
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.
13
They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14
Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
15
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.
16
These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate without daughters.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.