2
Then we all put out the lamps, and all my neighbors attempted to console me; and I remained quiet until evening of the second day.
3
But when they all had stopped consoling me, that I might be quiet, I got up in the night and fled, and came to this field, as you see.
4
And now I intend not to return to the city, but to stay here, and I will neither eat nor drink, but without ceasing mourn and fast until I die."
5
Then I broke off the reflections with which I was still engaged, and answered her in anger and said,
6
"You most foolish of women, do you not see our mourning, and what has happened to us?
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