For he brought a distant nation against them, a nation ruthless and of a strange language, which had no respect for the aged and no pity for a child.

For with such a harsh and ruthless spirit were they being sent off, all together, by the generals in every city that at the sight of their unusual punishments even some of their enemies, perceiving the common object of pity before their eyes, reflected on the uncertainty of life and shed tears at the most miserable expulsion of these people.