1 And after these things I heard that angel saying unto those angels who held the lamps: Destroy, therefore, and overthrow its wall to its foundations, lest the enemy should boast and say: "We have overthrown the wall of Zion, And we have burnt the place of the mighty God." (2BA) 2 And ye have seized the place where I had been standing before. (2BA)
2 Baruch 7:1–2
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