Baruch 4:12
King James VersionSource notes
“Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.”
Context
9For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
10For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
11With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.
12Let no man rejoice over me, a widow, and forsaken of many, who for the sins of my children am left desolate; because they departed from the law of God.
13They knew not his statutes, nor walked in the ways of his commandments, nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness.
14Let them that dwell about Sion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
15For he hath brought a nation upon them from far, a shameless nation, and of a strange language, who neither reverenced old man, nor pitied child.