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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: "Hearken, you neighbors of Zion, God has brought great sorrow upon me;
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for I have seen the captivity 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.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the 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.