Chapter 10 _{30 And, lo, I lay as one that had been dead, and mine understanding was taken from me: and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said unto me,31 What aileth thee? and why art thou so disquieted? and why is thine understanding troubled, and the thoughts of thine heart?32 And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me, and yet I did according to thy words, and I went into the field, and, lo, I have seen, and yet see, that I am not able to express.33 And he said unto me, Stand up manfully, and I will advise thee.34 Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?37 Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt shew thy servant of this vision.38 He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee.39 He hath seen that thy way is right: for that thou sorrowest continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest:41 Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her:42 But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city builded.43 And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the solution:44 This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,45 Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her.46 But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son.47 And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.48 But whereas she said unto thee, That my son coming into his marriage chamber happened to have a fail, and died: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.49 And, behold, thou sawest her likeness, and because she mourned for her son, thou begannest to comfort her: and of these things which have chanced, these are to be opened unto thee.50 For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath he shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:51 And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house was builded:52 For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee.}