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For I sent you out with sorrow and weeping, but God will give you back to me with joy and gladness forever.
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For as the neighbors of Zion have now seen your capture, so they soon will see your salvation by God, which will come to you with great glory and with the splendor of the Everlasting.
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My children, endure with patience the wrath that has come upon you from God. Your enemy has overtaken you, but you will soon see their destruction and will tread upon their necks.
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My pampered children have traveled rough roads; they were taken away like a flock carried off by the enemy.
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Take courage, my children, and cry to God, for you will be remembered by the one who brought this upon you.
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For just as you were disposed to go astray from God, return with tenfold zeal to seek him.
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For the one who brought these calamities upon you will bring you everlasting joy with your salvation.
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Take courage, O Jerusalem, for the one who named you will comfort you.
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Wretched will be those who mistreated you and who rejoiced at your fall.
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Wretched will be the cities that your children served as slaves; wretched will be the city that received your offspring.
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For just as she rejoiced at your fall and was glad for your ruin, so she will be grieved at her own desolation.