⁸ I will make their widows^(A) more numerous
    than the sand of the sea.
At midday I will bring a destroyer^(B)
    against the mothers of their young men;
suddenly I will bring down on them
    anguish and terror.^(C)
9 The mother of seven will grow faint^(D)
    and breathe her last.^(E)
Her sun will set while it is still day;
    she will be disgraced^(F) and humiliated.
I will put the survivors to the sword^(G)
    before their enemies,”^(H)
declares the Lord.

¹⁰ Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth,^(I)
    a man with whom the whole land strives and contends!^(J)
I have neither lent^(K) nor borrowed,
    yet everyone curses^(L) me.