The three insteads I just quoted to you were first preached by a prophet in Israel to a congregation that was very unhappy. The Jews had been in exile in Babylon for seventy years. And then the exile ended. While in exile, they lived for little else but restoration to their homeland. They had prayed. They had waited. They had remembered. The life of an exile is mostly a matter of fantasies and longings, and the Jews were exiles. They remembered the green fields, the fertile vineyards, the magnificent temple and city they had left. They remembered their homes and villages and the beauties of
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