Baruch 4:11-13

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹¹ With joy I nurtured them,
    but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.
¹² Let no one rejoice over me, a widow
    and bereaved of many;
I was left desolate because of the sins of my children,
    because they turned away from the law of God.
¹³ They had no regard for his statutes;
    they did not walk in the ways of God’s commandments,
    or tread the paths his righteousness showed them.