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For he who brought these calamities upon you will deliver you from the hand of your enemies.
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Go, my children, go; for I have been left desolate.
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I have taken off the robe of peace and put on the sackcloth of my supplication; I will cry to the Everlasting all my days.
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"Take courage, my children, cry to God, and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemy.
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For I have put my hope in the Everlasting to save you, and joy has come to me from the Holy One, because of the mercy which soon will come to you from your everlasting Savior.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.