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And I answered and said: Must I then bear guilt concerning Tziyon, because Your enemies will come to this place, defile Your Set-Apart Place, seize Your Inheritance, and rule over those You loved? Then they will return to the place of their carved images and boast before them. What, then, have You done for Your great Name?
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And Yahuah said to me: My Name and My praise endure to ages of ages, and My Judgment shall preserve its Righteousness in its appointed time.
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You shall see with your eyes that the enemies do not overthrow Tziyon, nor do they burn Yerushalayim; rather, they serve the Judge for a time.
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But you—go and do everything I have spoken to you.
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So I went and took Yirmeyahu, Ado, Serayah, Yabish, Gedalyah, and all the honored ones of the people. I brought them to the wadi of Qidron and declared to them everything spoken to me.
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They lifted their voices, and they all wept.
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We sat there and fasted until evening.