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.