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and laid away her glorious apparel and put on the garments of anguish and mourning; and instead of precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung; and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.
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And she prayed unto the Lord God of Israel, saying: "O my Lord, Thou only art our King. Help me, desolate woman, who have no helper but Thee,
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From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that Thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and Thou hast performed whatsoever Thou didst promise them.
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And now we have sinned before Thee; therefore hast Thou given us into the hands of our enemies,
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