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This is the dream that you saw, and this is its interpretation.
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And you alone were worthy to learn this secret of the Most High.
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Therefore write all these things that you have seen in a book, and put it in a hidden place;
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and you shall teach them to the wise among your people, whose hearts you know are able to comprehend and keep these secrets.
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But wait here seven days more, so that you may be shown whatever it pleases the Most High to show you." Then he left me.
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When all the people heard that the seven days were past and I had not returned to the city, they all gathered together, from the least to the greatest, and came to me and spoke to me, saying,
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"How have we offended you, and what harm have we done you, that you have forsaken us and sit in this place?
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For of all the prophets you alone are left to us, like a cluster of grapes from the vintage, and like a lamp in a dark place, and like a haven for a ship saved from a storm.
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Are not the evils which have befallen us sufficient?
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Therefore if you forsake us, how much better it would have been for us if we also had been consumed in the burning of Zion!
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For we are no better than those who died there." And they wept with a loud voice. Then I answered them and said,