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11 With joy I nurtured them;
    but with mourning and lament I sent them away.
12 Let no one gloat over me,
    a widow, bereft of many;
For the sins of my children I am left desolate,
    because they turned from the law of God,(A)
13     and did not acknowledge his statutes;
In the ways of God’s commandments they did not walk,
    nor did they tread the disciplined paths of his justice.

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