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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.
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And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the interpretation:
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This woman whom thou sawest is Zion. And whereas she said unto thee (even she whom thou seest as a city built)--
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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 built the city and offered offerings; and then bore the barren a son.