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At that time people shall hope but not obtain; they shall labor, but their ways shall not prosper.
13
These are the signs that I am permitted to tell you, and if you pray again, and weep as you do now, and fast for seven days, you shall hear yet greater things than these."
14
Then I woke up, and my body shuddered violently, and my soul was so troubled that it fainted.
15
But the angel who had come and talked with me held me and strengthened me and set me on my feet.
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Now on the second night Phaltiel, a chief of the people, came to me and said, "Where have you been? And why is your face sad?
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