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Their widows are increased more than the sand of the seas.
    I have brought on them against the mother of the young men a destroyer at noonday.
    I have caused anguish and terrors to fall on her suddenly.
She who has borne seven languishes.
    She has given up the spirit.
Her sun has gone down while it was yet day.
    She has been disappointed and confounded.
    I will deliver their residue to the sword before their enemies,” says Yahweh.

10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife,
    and a man of contention to the whole earth!
I have not lent, neither have men lent to me;
    yet every one of them curses me.

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