2. The mother who bore them says to them: "Go, children, because I am widowed and abandoned.
3. I brought you up with joy, but I will send you away with mourning and sadness, because you have sinned in the presence of the Lord God and have done bad things in his sight.
4. But now what will I do for you? I am a widow and abandoned by my children. Go, children, and seek mercy from the Lord,
5. for I am left all alone."I call upon you, Father, concerning the mother of those who were unwilling to keep your covenant:
6. Throw them into confusion and their mother into ruin. May they leave no descendants,
7. but be scattered among the nations! May their names be wiped out from the earth because they despised my covenant!
8. How terrible it will be for you, Assyria—you who are hiding the wicked in your midst! Evil city, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah,
9. whose land was dragged down all the way to hell. I will do the same to those who haven’t obeyed me, says the almighty Lord.