1. Thus says the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels at nothing.
2. The mother that bare them says to them, go your way, O my children; for I am a widow and forsaken.
3. I brought you up with gladness, and with sorrow and heaviness have I lost you: for you⌃ have sinned before the Lord God, and done that which is evil before me.
4. But what shall I now do to you? for I am a widow and forsaken: go your way, O my children, and ask mercy of the Lord.
5. As for me, O father, I call upon you for a witness over the mother of these children, because they would not keep my covenant,