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64:6 ; Luke 14:33 ; Ps . 38:4 ; Hab . 2:2 ; Acts 16:30,31 -RSB- I looked , and saw him open the book , and read therein ; and , as he read , he wept , and trembled ; and , not being able longer to contain , he brake out with a lamentable cry , saying , `` What shall I do ? '' -LSB- Acts 2:37 -RSB- -LCB- 11 -RCB- In this plight , therefore , he went home and refrained himself as long as he could , that his wife and children should not perceive his distress ; but he could not be silent long , because that his trouble increased . Wherefore at length he brake his mind to his wife and children ; and thus he began to talk to them : O my dear wife , said he , and you the children of my bowels , I , your dear friend , am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me ; moreover , I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven ; in which fearful overthrow , both myself , with thee my wife , and you my sweet babes , shall miserably come to ruin , except -LRB- the which yet I see not -RRB- some way of escape can be found , whereby we may be delivered . At this his relations were sore amazed ; not for that they believed that what he had said to them was true , but because they thought that some frenzy distemper had got into his head ; therefore , it drawing towards night , and they hoping that sleep might settle his brains , with all haste they got him to bed . But the night was as troublesome to him as the day ; wherefore , instead of sleeping , he spent it in sighs and tears .