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Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my neighbors rose up to comfort me; so I took my rest until the second day at night.
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And it came to pass, when they had all left off comforting me to the end I might be quiet, then I rose up by night and fled, and came hither into this field, as thou seest.
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And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die."
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Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spoke to her in anger, saying,
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"Thou foolish woman above all others, seest thou not our mourning, and what happeneth unto us?
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How that Zion our mother is full of all heaviness, and much humbled, mourning very sorely?
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And now, seeing we all mourn and are sad, for we are all in heaviness, art thou grieved for one son?
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For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
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For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come; and behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
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Who then should make more mourning, if not she who hath lost so great a multitude, and not thou who art sorry but for one?
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But if thou sayest unto me, `My lamentation is not like the earth's, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains and bore with sorrows,