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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.
43
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!
45
For we are no better than those who died there." And they wept with a loud voice. Then I answered them and said,
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"Take courage, O Israel; and do not be sorrowful, O house of Jacob;
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