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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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For Zion, the mother of us all, is in deep grief and great affliction.
8
It is most appropriate to mourn now, because we are all mourning, and to be sorrowful, because we are all sorrowing; you are sorrowing for one son, but we, the whole world, for our mother.
9
Now ask the earth, and she will tell you that it is she who ought to mourn over so many who have come into being upon her.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.