Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.
Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies are at ease, for the Lord has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the adversary.
He deported all Jerusalem and all the commanders and all the best soldiers #– #ten thousand captives including all the craftsmen and metalsmiths. Except for the poorest people of the land, no one remained.
Then the Israelites took two hundred thousand captives from their brothers #– #women, sons, and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder from them and brought it to Samaria.
The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.
They will not labour without success or bear children destined for disaster, for they will be a people blessed by the Lord along with their descendants.
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.