4:2 Turn thee, O Jacob, and take hold of it: walk in the presence of the light thereof, that thou mayest be illuminated.
4:3 Give not thine honour to another, nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation.
4:4 O Israel, happy are we: for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us.
4:5 Be of good cheer, my people, the memorial of Israel.
4:6 Ye were sold to the nations, not for [your] destruction: but because ye moved God to wrath, ye were delivered unto the enemies.
4:7 For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils, and not to God.
4:8 Ye have forgotten the everlasting God, that brought you up; and ye have grieved Jerusalem, that nursed you.
4:9 For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Sion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
4:10 For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting brought upon them.
4:11 With joy did I nourish them; but sent them away with weeping and mourning.