34 Normally, when the ground receives seed or the sea a ship or some other container food or drink, and when it happens that what was sown or what was sent or what was received is destroyed,
35 those things themselves are destroyed, but the containers remain. But this hasn’t been so in our case.
36 We who received the Law sinned and will perish, along with our hearts that received it;
37 yet the Law doesn’t perish but remains in its glory."
38 While I was saying these things in my heart, I looked with my eyes and saw a woman to my right. She was lamenting and crying with a loud voice, and she was experiencing deep grief. Her clothes were torn, and there were ashes on her head.
39 I dismissed my own thoughts, turned to her, and said,
40 "Why are you weeping, and why do you grieve so deeply?"