27. I watched, and she no longer appeared to me as a woman, but there was a city built, and a place with great foundations appeared. I was afraid, and I shouted with a great voice,
28. "Where’s the angel Uriel, who came to me from the beginning? He’s the one who’s brought me to the end of my wits! My end has turned into decay and my prayer into a reproach."
29. While I was saying these things, the angel who had come to me in the beginning came to me again and looked at me.
30. I was laid out like a dead man, and I had lost my mind. He held my strong hand, comforted me, set me on my feet, and said to me,
31. "What has happened to you? Why are you agitated? Why are your mind, your intellect, and your understanding all in turmoil?"I said,
32. "Because you abandoned me. I followed your instructions, and I went out into the field, and look here, I saw and see what I can’t describe."He said to me,
33. "Stand up like a man, and I’ll remind you."I said,
34. "Speak, my Lord, only don’t abandon me so that I may not die for nothing.
35. I can’t make sense out of what I saw, and I don’t understand what I’ve heard.
36. Or is my mind deceived and my soul dreaming?
37. Now then I beg you to explain this bewildering sight to your servant."
38. He answered me: “Listen to me. Let me teach you, and I will speak to you about what you fear, for the Most High has revealed many mysteries to you.
39. He saw that you walk the straight way, because you grieve for your people without ceasing and you mourn greatly over Zion.
40. "Here then is the meaning of the vision. This is the explanation of the woman who appeared to you a little while ago,
41. whom you saw mourning and whom you began to console
42. (though now you don’t see a woman, but a fully constructed city has appeared to you),
43. and who told you about the fate of her son.
44. This woman whom you saw is Zion, whom you now see built as a city.
45. As for what she said to you, that she was infertile for thirty years, it is because there were three thousand years in the world when offerings weren’t yet made in her.