Yahweh has just told them no one will care about them and that he will destroy his people since they would not turn from their wicked ways.

## widows ##

women whose husbands have died

## more than the sands of the seashore ##

AT: "more than you can count" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])

## fall on them ##

"happen to them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-idiom]])