2 The master says, “I brought this people out of bondage. I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets, whom they wouldn’t listen to, but made my counsels void. 2 The mother who bore them says to them, ‘Go your way, my children, for I’m a widow and forsaken. 3 I brought you up with gladness, and I’ve lost you with sorrow and heaviness, for you’ve sinned before the master God, and done that which is evil before me. 4 But now what can I do for you? Because I’m a widow and forsaken. Go your way, my children, and ask for mercy from the master.’ 5 As for me, Oh father, I call on you for a witness in addition to the mother of these children, because they wouldn’t keep my covenant, 6 that you may bring them to confusion, and their mother to ruin, that they may have no offspring. 7 Let them be scattered abroad among the heathen. Let their names be blotted out of the earth, for they’ve despised my covenant. 8 Woe to you, Ashur (Assyria), you who hide the unrighteous with you! You wicked nation, remember what I did to Sedom and Amorah (Gomorrah), 9 whose land lies in lumps of pitch and heaps of ashes. That’s what I’ll also do to those who haven’t listened to me,” says the master Almighty.