Is Israel a bondman? Is he a home-born slave? Why is he become a spoil?

She that hath borne seven languisheth, she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it is yet day; she is put to shame and confounded. And the residue of them will I give up to the sword before their enemies, saith Jehovah.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bear them, and concerning their fathers that beget them in this land:

Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad!

And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.