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He answered me: “Listen to me. Let me teach you, and I will speak to you about what you fear, for the Most High has revealed many mysteries to you.
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He saw that you walk the straight way, because you grieve for your people without ceasing and you mourn greatly over Zion.
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"Here then is the meaning of the vision. This is the explanation of the woman who appeared to you a little while ago,
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whom you saw mourning and whom you began to console
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(though now you don't see a woman, but a fully constructed city has appeared to you),
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and who told you about the fate of her son.
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This woman whom you saw is Zion, whom you now see built as a city.
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As for what she said to you, that she was infertile for thirty years, it is because there were three thousand years in the world when offerings weren't yet made in her.
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After three thousand years, Solomon built the city and made offerings. That is when the infertile woman bore a son.
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As for what she said to you, that she nourished him with labor, this was the time that Jerusalem was inhabited.
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And as for what she said to you, that her son came into his wedding chamber and died and that misfortune happened to her, this is the destruction that happened to Jerusalem.