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"How have we offended you, and what harm have we done you, that you have forsaken us and sit in this place?
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For of all the prophets you alone are left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a haven for a ship saved from a storm.
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Are not the disasters that have befallen us enough?
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Therefore if you forsake us, how much better it would have been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion.
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For we are no better than those who died there." And they wept with a loud voice. Then I answered them and said,
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