She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; she cares not that her labor was in vain,
unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them.
for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense.
The toil of fools wearies them; they do not know the way to town.
“Look, Lord, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.
Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy.