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Page 89 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Rules and Proceedings, Volume 1 |
| Author | Oxford Architectural & Historical Society |
| Publisher | The Society., 1864 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Aug 2006 |
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