⁵ “Indeed, who will ^(A)spare you, O Jerusalem,
Or who will ^(B)console you,
Or who will turn aside to ask about your well-being?
⁶ You who have ^(C)abandoned Me,” declares Yahweh,
“You keep ^(D)going backward.
So I will ^(E)stretch out My hand against you and bring you to ruin;
I am ^(F)tired of ^[a]relenting!
⁷ And I will ^(G)winnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will ^(H)bereave them of children; I will make My people perish;
^(I)They did not ^[b]repent of their ways.
⁸ Their ^(J)widows will be more numerous before Me
Than the sand of the seas;
I will bring against them, against the mother of a choice man,
A ^(K)destroyer at noonday;
I will suddenly bring down on her
Anguish and terror.
⁹ She who ^(L)bore seven sons languishes;
^[c]Her breathing is labored.
Her ^(M)sun has set while it was yet day;
She has been ^(N)shamed and humiliated.
So I will ^(O)give over their survivors to the sword
Before their enemies,” declares Yahweh.