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Behold, we are today in our exile where thou hast scattered us, to be reproached and cursed and punished for all the iniquities of our fathers who forsook the Lord our God.'"
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Hear the commandments of life, O Israel; give ear, and learn wisdom!
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Why is it, O Israel, why is it that you are in the land of your enemies, that you are growing old in a foreign country, that you are defiled with the dead,
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that you are counted among those in Hades?
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You have forsaken the fountain of wisdom.