Baruch 4:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹ Joyfully I raised them,
    but with tears and lamenting I had to watch them depart.
¹² Let not one of you rejoice over my fate,
    a widow who has lost so many of her own;
I have been left desolate because of the sins of my children
    who deviated from the law of God.
¹³ They refused to obey his statutes,
    and did not walk in the ways of God’s commandments
    or follow the paths of discipline that his justice required.