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And, lo, it is a custom, when the ground hath received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into,
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That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not happened so.
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For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it
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Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.
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And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.
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Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,
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And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so grieved in thy mind?
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And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.
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And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.
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She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had an husband thirty years,
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And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.