42
For of all the prophets you alone are left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a haven for a ship saved from a storm.
40
When all the people heard that the seven days were past and I had not returned to the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me and spoke to me, saying,
41
"How have we offended you, and what harm have we done you, that you have forsaken us and sit in this place?
42
For of all the prophets you alone are left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a haven for a ship saved from a storm.
43
Are not the evils which have befallen us sufficient?
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Therefore if you forsake us, how much better it would have been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion!
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