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For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
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For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come; and behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
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Who then should make more mourning, if not she who hath lost so great a multitude, and not thou who art sorry but for one?
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But if thou sayest unto me, `My lamentation is not like the earth's, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains and bore with sorrows,
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but the earth not so; for the multitude present in it, according to the course of the earth, is gone as it came'--
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.