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because your voice has surely been heard by the Most High; for the Mighty One has seen your uprightness and has also observed the purity that you have maintained from your youth.
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Therefore he sent me to show you all these things, and to say to you: "Believe and do not be afraid!
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Do not be quick to think vain thoughts concerning the former times; then you will not act hastily in the last times.' "
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Now after this I wept again and fasted seven days in the same way as before, in order to complete the three weeks that had been prescribed for me.
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Then on the eighth night my heart was troubled within me again, and I began to speak in the presence of the Most High.
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