¹⁸ (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

²¹ Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?