1. This is the book of the commandments of God, and the law that endures for ever: all they that hold it fast are appointed to life; but such as leave it shall die.
2. Turn you, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk towards her shining in the presence of the light thereof.
3. Give not your glory to another, nor the things that are profitable to you to a strange nation.
4. O Israel, happy are we: for the things that are pleasing to God are made known to us.
5. Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
6. You⌃ were sold to the nations, but not for destruction: because you⌃ moved God to wrath, you⌃ were delivered to your adversaries.
7. For you⌃ provoked him that made you by sacrificing to demons, and not to God.
8. You⌃ forgat the everlasting God, that brought you up; you⌃ grieved also Jerusalem, that nursed you.
9. For she saw the wrath that is come upon you from God, and said, Hearken, you⌃ women that dwell about Sion: for God has brought upon me great mourning;
10. for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.
11. For with joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12. Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many: for the sins of my children am I left desolate; because they turned aside from the law of God,
13. and had no regard to his statutes, neither walked they in the ways of God’s commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14. Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember you⌃ the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting has brought upon them.