Latin Text Selections

The Latin:

Et dixit Sion : Derelíquit me Dóminus,
et Dóminus oblítus est mei.
Numquid oblivísci potest múlier infántem suum,
ut non misereátur fílio úteri sui ?
Etsi illa oblíta fúerit,
ego tamen non oblivíscar tui.

The English:

And Sion said: The Lord hath forsaken me,
and the Lord hath forgotten me.
Can a woman forget her infant,
so as not to have pity on the son of her womb?
and if she should forget, yet will not I forget thee.

[An eternal, undescribable mystery, this love is. The Latin places a stress on the final 'I'. God sets his love apart from the love of human beings.]