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(A)She who bore seven has grown feeble;
    (B)she has fainted away;
(C)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 (D)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! (E)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. 11 The Lord said, “Have I not[a] set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 15:11 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain