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I said, "Speak, my Lord." He said to me, "Are you really more deeply disturbed over Israel, or do you love him more than the one who made him does?"
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When I had said these words, the angel who had come to me on the previous night was sent to me.
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He said to me: "Listen to me, and I will instruct you; pay attention to me, and I will tell you more."
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I said, "Speak, my Lord." He said to me, "Are you really more deeply disturbed over Israel, or do you love him more than the one who made him does?"
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I said: "No, Lord, but I spoke in grief. My heart torments me every hour while I try to make sense of the Most High's ways and investigate his decisions."
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He said to me, "You can't." And I said: "Why, Lord? Or else why was I born, and why did my mother's womb not become my tomb so that I might not see the toil of Jacob and the exhaustion of the line of Israel?"