4
And now I intend not to return to the town, but to stay here; I will neither eat nor drink, but will mourn and fast continually until I die."
5
Then I broke off the reflections with which I was still engaged, and answered her in anger and said,
6
"You most foolish of women, do you not see our mourning, and what has happened to us?
7
For Zion, the mother of us all, is in deep grief and great distress.
8
It is most appropriate to mourn now, because we are all mourning, and to be sorrowful, because we are all sorrowing; you are sorrowing for one son, but we, the whole world, for our mother.
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