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Happy are we, O Israel, for we know what is pleasing to God.
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Take courage, my people, who perpetuate Israel's name!
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It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God.
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For you provoked the one who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God.
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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.
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They had no regard for his statutes; they did not walk in the ways of God's commandments, or tread the paths his righteousness showed them.
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Let the neighbors of Zion come; remember the capture of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.