¹² Was it I who conceived all this people? Was it I who brought them forth, that You should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom as a ^[a](A)nurse carries a nursing infant, to the land which ^(B)You swore to their fathers’? ¹³ Where am I to get meat to give to ^(C)all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may eat!’ ^14 (D)I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too ^[b]burdensome for me.