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He will put them on trial while they are still alive, and after he has convicted them, he will destroy them.
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Yet he will mercifully liberate the remaining few from my people who are saved throughout my territory. He will make them joyful until the end comes—the Judgment Day, of which I have spoken to you from the beginning.
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"This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.
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You alone were counted worthy to know this secret of the Most High.
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Therefore, write all these things that you saw in a scroll and hide it away.
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Teach these matters to the wise among your people, whose minds you know can grasp and keep these secrets.
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But wait here yet another seven days so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you."
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Then he left me. When the whole people heard that seven days had passed and I hadn't returned to the city, they all gathered, from the smallest to the biggest. They came and said to me,
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"How have we sinned against you? What wrong did we do to you that you abandon us and sit in this place?
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You are the only one of all the prophets left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vineyard, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a harbor for a ship saved from a storm.
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Or are the disasters that have befallen us not enough for us?