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Their widows will increase before Me
        more than the sand of the seas,
    I will bring a destroyer at noonday
        against the mother of a young man.
    Suddenly I will bring down on her
        anguish and terrors.
She who bore seven languishes.
    She breathes out her soul.
    Her sun sets while it is yet day.
    She is shamed and humiliated.
    Their survivors I give to the sword
        before their enemies.”
It is a declaration of Adonai.
10 Oy to me, my mother,
    that you gave birth to me—
    a man of strife and conflict to all the land!
    I did not lend or borrow,
    yet everyone curses me.

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