Yahweh continues speaking to Zion as if it were a person, a widow.

## Though you were a waste and desolate ##

"Though the enemy left you destroyed and empty"

## bereavement -  ##

</b> This refers to the time when the Israelites were in exile in Babylon.

## The children born during the time of your bereavement ##

AT: "The children born during the exile" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])