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What have we offended thee? and what evil have we done against thee, that thou forsakest us, and sittest here in this place?
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For of all the prophets thou only art left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a candle in a dark place, and as a haven or ship preserved from the tempest.
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Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?
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If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?
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For we are not better than they that died there. And they wept with a loud voice. Then answered I them, and said,