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Now therefore I beg you to give your servant an explanation of this bewildering vision."
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He answered me and said, "Listen to me, and I will teach you, and tell you about the things that you fear; for the Most High has revealed many secrets to you.
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He has seen your righteous conduct, and that you have sorrowed continually for your people and mourned greatly over Zion.
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This therefore is the meaning of the vision.
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The woman who appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning and whom you began to console
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(you do not now see the form of a woman, but there appeared to you a city being built)
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and who told you about the misfortune of her son—this is the interpretation:
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The woman whom you saw is Zion, which you now behold as a city being built.
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And as for her telling you that she was barren for thirty years, the reason is that there were three thousand years in the world before any offering was offered in it.
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And after three thousand years Solomon built the city, and offered offerings; then it was that the barren woman bore a son.
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And as for her telling you that she brought him up with much care, that was the period of residence in Jerusalem.