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And I said, "Because thou hast forsaken me; and yet I did according to thy words, and I went into the field, and lo, I have seen and yet see what I am not able to express."
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And he said unto me, "Stand up manfully, and I will advise thee.'"
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Then said I, "Speak on, my lord, to me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrated in my hope.
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For I have seen what I knew not, and hear what I do not know.
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Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?
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Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt show thy servant about this vision."
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He answered me then and said, "Hear me, and I shall inform thee and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid; for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee.
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He hath seen that thy way is right, for thou sorrowest continually for thy people and makest great lamentation for Zion.
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"This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest:
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Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou began to comfort her;
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but now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city built.