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and said to her, "Why are you weeping, and why are you grieved at heart?"
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And she said to me, "Let me alone, my lord, that I may weep for myself and continue to mourn, for I am greatly embittered in spirit and deeply afflicted."
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And I said to her, "What has happened to you? Tell me."
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And she said to me, "Your servant was barren and had no child, though I lived with my husband thirty years.
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And every hour and every day during those thirty years I besought the Most High, night and day.
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