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Shake off your great sadness then, and put away the multitude of your sorrows so that the mighty one may show you favor and the Most High may give you peace and rest from your labors."
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While I was speaking to her, look! Suddenly her face shone brightly and her countenance became a flashing splendor. I became afraid of her, and I wondered what was happening.
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Without warning she let out a noise, a great voice full of fear, so that the earth itself shook with the sound.
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I watched, and she no longer appeared to me as a woman, but there was a city built, and a place with great foundations appeared. I was afraid, and I shouted with a great voice,
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"Where's the angel Uriel, who came to me from the beginning? He's the one who's brought me to the end of my wits! My end has turned into decay and my prayer into a reproach."
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While I was saying these things, the angel who had come to me in the beginning came to me again and looked at me.
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I was laid out like a dead man, and I had lost my mind. He held my strong hand, comforted me, set me on my feet, and said to me,
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"What has happened to you? Why are you agitated? Why are your mind, your intellect, and your understanding all in turmoil?" I said,
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"Because you abandoned me. I followed your instructions, and I went out into the field, and look here, I saw and see what I can't describe." He said to me,
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"Stand up like a man, and I'll remind you." I said,
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"Speak, my Lord, only don't abandon me so that I may not die for nothing.