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Then I awoke, and my body shuddered violently, and my soul was so troubled that it fainted.
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But the angel who had come and talked with me held me and strengthened me and set me on my feet.
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Now on the second night Phaltiel, a chief of the people, came to me and said, "Where have you been? And why is your face sad?
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Or do you not know that Israel has been entrusted to you in the land of their exile?
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Rise therefore and eat some bread, so that you may not forsake us, like a shepherd who leaves his flock in the power of cruel wolves."
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.