1. " 'This is the book of the commandments of God and of the law, which exists in eternity. All those who keep it will attain to life, but those who have forsaken it, to death.
2. Convert, O Jacob, and embrace it, walk in the way of its splendor, facing its light.
3. Do not surrender your glory to another, nor your value to a foreign people.
4. We have been happy, O Israel, because the things that are pleasing to God have been made clear to us.
5. Be ever more peaceful in soul, O people of God, the memorial of Israel.
6. You have been sold to the nations, not into destruction, but because of this, in resentment, you provoked God to wrath, and so you have been delivered to adversity.
7. For you have exasperated him who made you, the eternal God, by sacrificing to evil spirits, and not to God.
8. For you have forgotten God, who nurtured you, and you have saddened Jerusalem, your nurse.
9. For she saw the wrath of God approaching you, and she said, "Listen, region of Zion, for God has brought upon me great sorrow.
10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, my sons and daughters, which the Eternal has led over them.
11. For I nurtured them with joy, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
12. Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and a desolation, for I am forsaken by many because of the sins of my sons, because they strayed from the law of God.
13. And they have not known his righteousness, nor walked in the ways of the commandments of God, nor have they advanced with justice along the paths of his truth.
14. Let the region of Zion approach, and remember the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Eternal led over them.
15. For he has brought a far away people upon them, a guilty people, and of another language,
16. who have not reverenced the aged, nor had mercy on the children, and who have led away the beloved of the widow, leaving me deserted and alone, without sons.
17. But as for me, how am I able to help you?