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"This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest:
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Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou began to comfort her;
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but now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city built.
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And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the interpretation:
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This woman whom thou sawest is Zion. And whereas she said unto thee (even she whom thou seest as a city built)--
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whereas, I say, she said unto thee that she hath been thirty years barren, those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her.
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But after thirty years Solomon built the city and offered offerings; and then bore the barren a son.
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And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labor, that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
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But whereas she said unto thee, `My son, coming into his marriage chamber, happened to have a fall and died,' this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.
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And behold, thou sawest her likeness; and because she mourned for her son, thou began to comfort her; and of these things which have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee.
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For now the Most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her; so hath He shown thee the brightness of her glory and the comeliness of her beauty.