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Are not the disasters that have befallen us enough?
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Therefore if you forsake us, how much better it would have been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion.
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For we are no better than those who died there." And they wept with a loud voice. Then I answered them and said,
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"Take courage, O Israel; and do not be sorrowful, O house of Jacob;
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for the Most High has you in remembrance, and the Mighty One has not forgotten you in your struggle.
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