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You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up, and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.
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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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for I have seen the exile of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
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With joy I nurtured them, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
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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.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.