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迷途篇 Going Astray

Wall

Broken wall

and city destroyed
no longer defend against the humiliation of foes.
Who can erect up the solid fortress?
Who can protect you from the date to be destructed?

Plea in weeps,
confess in humbleness.
Day and night

are only in the wish of coming around to relent.
Has the previous covenant
slipped from your memory?
Has the mighty mercy

already vanished?

Kindness would no longer cease,
and reverence leads to access.

Lifting up a cry in depression,
rebuild the land without cultivation.

“When I heard these things, I sat down and wept... ‘Let us start rebuilding.’”

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