41. What have we offended you? and what evil have we done against you, that you have utterly forsaken us, and sit in this place?
42. For of all the prophets you only are left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a lamp in a dark place, and as a haven for a ship saved from the tempest.
43. Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?
44. If you shall forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been consumed in the burning of Sion!
45. For we are not better than they that died there. And they wept with a loud voice. And I answered them, and said,
46. Be of good comfort, O Israel; and be not sorrowful, you house of Jacob: