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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 shew thy servant of 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 that thou sorrowest continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.
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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 begannest 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 builded.
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And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the solution:
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This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,
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Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her.
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But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son.