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.
15. For he has brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.
16. And they have carried away the dear beloved sons of the widow, and left her that was alone desolate of her daughters.
17. But I, what can I help you?
18. For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
19. Go your way, O my children, go your way: for I am left desolate.
20. I have put off the garment of peace, and put upon me the sackcloth of my petition: I will cry to the Everlasting as long as I live.
21. Be of good cheer, O my children, cry to God, and he shall deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies.
22. For I have trusted in the Everlasting, that he will save you; and joy is come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which shall soon come to you from the Everlasting your Saviour.