3 I brought you up with joy, but I will send you away with mourning and sadness, because you have sinned in the presence of the Lord God and have done bad things in his sight.
4 But now what will I do for you? I am a widow and abandoned by my children. Go, children, and seek mercy from the Lord,
5 for I am left all alone."I call upon you, Father, concerning the mother of those who were unwilling to keep your covenant:
6 Throw them into confusion and their mother into ruin. May they leave no descendants,
7 but be scattered among the nations! May their names be wiped out from the earth because they despised my covenant!
8 How terrible it will be for you, Assyria—you who are hiding the wicked in your midst! Evil city, remember what I did to Sodom and Gomorrah,
9 whose land was dragged down all the way to hell. I will do the same to those who haven’t obeyed me, says the almighty Lord.