13. And you shall mortify it as your creature, and quicken it as your work.
14. If therefore you shall lightly and suddenly destroy him which with so great labor was fashioned by your commandment, to what purpose was he made?
15. Now therefore I will speak; touching man in general, you know best; but touching your people will I speak, for whose sake I am sorry;
16. and for your inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for the seed of Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled;
17. therefore will I begin to pray before you for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land;
18. but I have heard the swiftness of the judgment which is to come.