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Who then should make more mourning than she, that hath lost so great a multitude; and not thou, which art sorry but for one?
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But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth's, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;
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But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:
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Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
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Now therefore keep thy sorrow to thyself, and bear with a good courage that which hath befallen thee.
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For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.
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Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.
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And she said unto me, That will I not do: I will not go into the city, but here will I die.
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So I proceeded to speak further unto her, and said,
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Do not so, but be counselled. by me: for how many are the adversities of Sion? be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
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For thou seest that our sanctuary is laid waste, our altar broken down, our temple destroyed;