5 Take courage, my people,

O memorial of Israel!

6 It was not for destruction

that you were sold to the nations,

but you were handed over to your enemies

because you angered God.

7 For you provoked him who made you,

by sacrificing to demons and not to God.

8 You forgot the everlasting God, who brought you up,

and you grieved Jerusalem, who reared you.

9 For she saw the wrath that came upon you from God,

and she said:

“Hearken, you neighbors of Zion,

God has brought great sorrow upon me;

10 for I have seen the captivity of my sons and daughters,

which the Everlasting brought upon them.

11 With joy I nurtured them,

but I sent them away with weeping and sorrow.

12 Let no one rejoice over me, a widow

and bereaved of many;

I was left desolate because of the sins of my children,

because they turned away from the law of God.