13. but it is with the earth after the manner of the earth; the multitude present in it is gone, as it came:
14. then say I to you, Like as you have brought forth with sorrow; even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning to him that made her.
15. Now therefore keep your sorrow to yourself, and bear with a good courage the adversities which have befallen you.
16. For if you shall acknowledge the decree of God to be just, you shall both receive your son in time, and shall be praised among women.
17. Go your way then into the city to your husband.
18. And she said to me, That will I not do: I will not go into the city, but here will I die.
19. So I proceeded to speak further to her, and said,
20. Do not so, but suffer yourself to be prevailed on by reason of the adversities of Sion; and be comforted by reason of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
21. For you see that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;
22. our lute is brought low, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end; the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is spoiled, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is profaned; our freemen are despitefully treated, our priests are burned, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones betrayed, our young men are brought into bondage, and our strong men are become weak;
23. and, what is more than all, the seal of Sion—for she has now lost the seal of her honor, and is delivered into the hands of them that hate us.
24. You therefore shake off your great heaviness, and put away from you the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful to you again, and the Most High may give you rest, even ease from your travails.