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When I said these things in my heart, I looked around, and on my right I saw a woman; she was mourning and weeping with a loud voice, and was deeply grieved at heart; her clothes were torn, and there were ashes on her head.
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Then I dismissed the thoughts with which I had been engaged, and turned to her
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and said to her, "Why are you weeping, and why are you grieved at heart?"
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She said to me, "Let me alone, my lord, so that I may weep for myself and continue to mourn, for I am greatly embittered in spirit and deeply distressed."
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I said to her, "What has happened to you? Tell me."
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