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* This is the book of the commandments of God , and the law that endureth for ever : all they that keep it shall come to life ; but such as leave it shall die . * Turn thee , O Jacob , and take hold of it : walk in the presence of the light thereof , that thou mayest be illuminated . * Give not thine honour to another , nor the things that are profitable unto thee to a strange nation . * O Israel , happy are we : for things that are pleasing to God are made known unto us . * Be of good cheer , my people , the memorial of Israel . * Ye were sold to the nations , not for [your ] destruction : but because ye moved God to wrath , ye were delivered unto the enemies . * For ye provoked him that made you by sacrificing unto devils , and not to God . * Ye have forgotten the everlasting God , that brought you up ; and ye have grieved Jerusalem , that nursed you . * For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you , she said , Hearken , O ye that dwell about Sion : God hath brought upon me great mourning ; * For I saw the captivity of my sons and daughters , which the Everlasting brought upon them . * With joy did I nourish them ; but sent them away with weeping and mourning . * Let no man rejoice over me , a widow , and forsaken of many , who for the sins of my children am left desolate ; because they departed from the law of God . * They knew not his statutes , nor walked in the ways of his commandments , nor trod in the paths of discipline in his righteousness . * Let them that dwell about Sion come , and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters , which the Everlasting hath brought upon them . * For he hath brought a nation upon them from far , a shameless nation , and of a strange language , who neither reverenced old man , nor pitied child . * These have carried away the dear beloved children of the widow , and left her that was alone desolate without daughters . * But what can I help you ? * For he that brought these plagues upon you will deliver you from the hands of your enemies . * Go your way , O my children , go your way : for I am left desolate . * I have put off the clothing of peace , and put upon me the sackcloth of my prayer : I will cry unto the Everlasting in my days . * Be of good cheer , O my children , cry unto the Lord , and he will deliver you from the power and hand of the enemies . * For my hope is in the Everlasting , that he will save you ; and joy is come unto me from the Holy One , because of the mercy which shall soon come unto you from the Everlasting our Saviour . * For I sent you out with mourning and weeping : but God will give you to me again with joy and gladness for ever . * Like as now the neighbours of Sion have seen your captivity : so shall they see shortly your salvation from our God which shall come upon you with great glory , and brightness of the Everlasting . * My children , suffer patiently the wrath that is come upon you from God : for thine enemy hath persecuted thee ; but shortly thou shalt see his destruction , and shalt tread upon his neck . * My delicate ones have gone rough ways , and were taken away as a flock caught of the enemies . * Be of good comfort , O my children , and cry unto God : for ye shall be remembered of him that brought these things upon you . * For as it was your mind to go astray from God : so , being returned , seek him ten times more . * For he that hath brought these plagues upon you shall bring you everlasting joy with your salvation . * Take a good heart , O Jerusalem : for he that gave thee that name will comfort thee . * Miserable are they that afflicted thee , and rejoiced at thy fall . * Miserable are the cities which thy children served : miserable is she that received thy sons . * For as she rejoiced at thy ruin , and was glad of thy fall : so shall she be grieved for her own desolation . * For I will take away the rejoicing of her great multitude , and her pride shall be turned into mourning . * For fire shall come upon her from the Everlasting , long to endure ; and she shall be inhabited of devils for a great time . * O Jerusalem , look about thee toward the east , and behold the joy that cometh unto thee from God . * Lo , thy sons come , whom thou sentest away , they come gathered together from the east to the west by the word of the Holy One , rejoicing in the glory of God .

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