The Prophet’s Unutterable Loneliness

16 There came to me this message from Jehovah:

2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife,

Saith Jehovah, the God of Israel;

Nor shalt thou have any sons

Or daughters in this place.

3 For thus Jehovah saith

Concerning the sons and the daughters

That in this place are born,

And concerning the mothers that bore them,

And the fathers that begat them:

4 "A grievous death shall they die,

Unburied, unlamented;

Like dung on the face of the field shall they be,

They shall perish by sword and famine;

By the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth

Shall their corpses be devoured."