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You are the only one of all the prophets left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vineyard, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a ship saved from a storm.
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Or are the disasters that have befallen us not enough for us?
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If you abandon us now, it would have been better for us to have been burned up along with Zion!
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We are no better than those who died there." They wept with a loud voice.
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I answered them: "Have confidence, Israel! Don't be sad, house of Jacob.