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I have made their widows more in number
    than (A)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.
(B)She who bore seven has grown feeble;
    (C)she has fainted away;
(D)her sun went down while it was yet day;
    she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
    before their enemies,
declares the Lord.”

Jeremiah's Complaint

10 (E)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (F)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

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