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And I looked and I saw, and behold the picture swayed.
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And from its lift side a crowd of heathens ran out and they captured the men, women, and children who 47.
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And I looked and saw, and behold the picture swayed and from it emerged, on the left side an ungodly people and they pillaged those who were on the right side, men, women, and children, and some they murdered, and others they kept as slaves.
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And I saw them run towards them through four 'entrances' and they burned the Temple with fire, and the holy things that were therein were all plundered. 2. were on its right side.
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And some they slaughtered and others they kept with 3. them.
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Behold I saw (them) running to them by way of four ascents and they burned the Temple with fire, and they plundered the holy things that were in it. 4.
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And I said, "Eternal One, the people you received from me are being robbed by 48.
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And I said, "0 Eternal One!
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Behold, the people who shall spring from me, and whom you have accepted, are plundered by these ungodly men, and some are killed, whilst others they hold captives as slaves, and the Temple they have burned with fire, and the beautiful things therein they have robbed and destroyed.
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If this to be, why have you so torn my heart?" 5. the hordes of the heathen.
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They are killing some and holding others as aliens, and they burned the Temple with fire and they are stealing and destroying the beautiful 6. things which are in it.
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Eternal, Mighty One!
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If this is so, why now have you 7. afflicted my heart and why will it be so?" And he said to me, "Listen, Abraham, all that you have seen will happen on account of your seed who will (continually) provoke me because of the body which you saw and the murder in what was 49.
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And He said to me, "What you have seen shall happen on account of your seed, even those who anger me by reason of the idol statue which you saw, and on account of the human sacrifice in the picture, through their evil zeal and schemes in the Temple, and as you saw it, so shall it be." 8. depicted in the Temple of jealousy, and everything you saw will be so." And I said. "Eternal, Mighty One!
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Let the evil works (done) in iniquity now pass by; 50.
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And I said, "0 Eternal, Mighty One!
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May these works of evil wrought in ungodliness now pass by, and rather show me those who fulfilled the commandments, even the works of righteousness.
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For of a truth you can do this." 9. but make commandments in them more than his just works.
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For you can do 10. this." And he said to me, "Again the time of justice will come upon them, at 51.
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And He said to me, "The days of the righteous are seen in type by the lives of those righteous rulers who shall arise, and whom I have created to rule at the times appointed, but know this, that out of them shall arise others who care only for their own interests, even of the type that I have already shown you. 11. first through the holiness of kings.
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And I will judge with justice those whom I 12. created earlier, to rule from them in them.
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And from these same ones will come men who will have regard for them.
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As I announced to you and you saw."