38. And he answered me, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform you, and tell you concerning the things whereof you are afraid: For the Most High has revealed many secret things to you.
39. He has seen that your way is right: for that you sorrowest continually for your people, and make great lamentation for Sion.
40. This therefore is the meaning of the vision.
41. The woman which appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning, and began to comfort her:
42. but now see you the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared to you a city in building:
43. and whereas she told you of the death of her son, this is the solution:
44. This woman, whom you saw, is Sion, whom you now see as a city builded;
45. and whereas she said to you, that she has been thirty years barren, it is, because there were three thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.
46. And it came to pass after three thousand years that Solomon builded the city, and offered offerings: then it was that the barren bare a son.
47. And whereas she told you that she nourished him with travail: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
48. And whereas she said to you, My son coming into his marriage chamber died, and that misfortune befell her: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.
49. And, behold, you saw her likeness, how she mourned for her son, and you began to comfort her for what has befallen her; these were the things to be opened to you.
50. For now the Most High, seeing that you are grieved unfeignedly, and suffer from your whole heart for her, has showed you the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:
51. and therefore I bade you remain in the field where no house was builded: