12. Let no one take pleasure in my suffering now that I am a widow and so many of my children have been taken from me. They turned away from God's Law, and their sins have made me a deserted city.
13. They had no respect for his commandments and would not live by them; they refused to let him guide them in the way of righteousness.
14. “All you neighbouring cities, come and consider how the Eternal God has sent my children into exile.
15. He brought against them a nation from far away, a shameless nation that speaks a foreign language and has no respect for the elderly and no pity for children.
16. These people carried off my beloved sons and took away my daughters, and I was left a widow, completely alone.