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When I said these things in my heart, I looked around, and on my right I saw a woman; she was mourning and weeping with a loud voice, and was deeply grieved at heart; her clothes were torn, and there were ashes on her head.
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For we who have received the law and sinned will perish, as well as our hearts that received it;
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the law, however, does not perish but survives in its glory."
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When I said these things in my heart, I looked around, and on my right I saw a woman; she was mourning and weeping with a loud voice, and was deeply grieved at heart; her clothes were torn, and there were ashes on her head.
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Then I dismissed the thoughts with which I had been engaged, and turned to her
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and said to her, "Why are you weeping, and why are you grieved at heart?"
Footnotes 1
[a].
Syr Arab Arm: Lat [I looked about me with my eyes]
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