6. You have been sold to the nations, not into destruction, but because of this, in resentment, you provoked God to wrath, and so you have been delivered to adversity.
7. For you have exasperated him who made you, the eternal God, by sacrificing to evil spirits, and not to God.
8. For you have forgotten God, who nurtured you, and you have saddened Jerusalem, your nurse.
9. For she saw the wrath of God approaching you, and she said, "Listen, region of Zion, for God has brought upon me great sorrow.
10. For I have seen the captivity of my people, my sons and daughters, which the Eternal has led over them.
11. For I nurtured them with joy, but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
12. Let no one rejoice over me, a widow and a desolation, for I am forsaken by many because of the sins of my sons, because they strayed from the law of God.