Verses with the word the in the Apocrypha (4169 verses; showing verse 501 - 1000):
2 Esdras 4:26
Then answered he me, and said, The more thou searchest, the more thou shalt marvel; for the world hasteth fast to pass away,
2 Esdras 4:27
And cannot comprehend the things that are promised to the righteous in time to come: for this world is full of unrighteousness and infirmities.
2 Esdras 4:28
But as concerning the things whereof thou askest me, I will tell thee; for the evil is sown, but the destruction thereof is not yet come.
2 Esdras 4:29
If therefore that which is sown be not turned upside down, and if the place where the evil is sown pass not away, then cannot it come that is sown with good.
2 Esdras 4:30
For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come?
2 Esdras 4:31
Ponder now by thyself, how great fruit of wickedness the grain of evil seed hath brought forth.
2 Esdras 4:32
And when the ears shall be cut down, which are without number, how great a floor shall they fill?
2 Esdras 4:34
And he answered me, saying, Do not thou hasten above the most Highest: for thy haste is in vain to be above him, for thou hast much exceeded.
2 Esdras 4:35
Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, How long shall I hope on this fashion? when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?
2 Esdras 4:36
And unto these things Uriel the archangel gave them answer, and said, Even when the number of seeds is filled in you: for he hath weighed the world in the balance.
2 Esdras 4:37
By measure hath he measured the times; and by number hath he numbered the times; and he doth not move nor stir them, until the said measure be fulfilled.
2 Esdras 4:39
And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
2 Esdras 4:40
So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a woman with child, and ask of her when she hath fulfilled her nine months, if her womb may keep the birth any longer within her.
2 Esdras 4:41
Then said I, No, Lord, that can she not. And he said unto me, In the grave the chambers of souls are like the womb of a woman:
2 Esdras 4:42
For like as a woman that travaileth maketh haste to escape the necessity of the travail: even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed unto them.
2 Esdras 4:43
From the beginning, look, what thou desirest to see, it shall be shewed thee.
2 Esdras 4:47
And he said unto me, Stand up upon the right side, and I shall expound the similitude unto thee.
2 Esdras 4:48
So I stood, and saw, and, behold, an hot burning oven passed by before me: and it happened that when the flame was gone by I looked, and, behold, the smoke remained still.
2 Esdras 4:49
After this there passed by before me a watery cloud, and sent down much rain with a storm; and when the stormy rain was past, the drops remained still.
2 Esdras 4:50
Then said he unto me, Consider with thyself; as the rain is more than the drops, and as the fire is greater than the smoke; but the drops and the smoke remain behind: so the quantity which is past did more exceed.
2 Esdras 4:52
He answered me, and said, As for the tokens whereof thou askest me, I may tell thee of them in part: but as touching thy life, I am not sent to shew thee; for I do not know it.
2 Esdras 5:1
Nevertheless as coming the tokens, behold, the days shall come, that they which dwell upon earth shall be taken in a great number, and the way of truth shall be hidden, and the land shall be barren of faith.
2 Esdras 5:3
And the land, that thou seest now to have root, shalt thou see wasted suddenly.
2 Esdras 5:4
But if the most High grant thee to live, thou shalt see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
2 Esdras 5:5
And blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled:
2 Esdras 5:6
And even he shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:
2 Esdras 5:7
And the Sodomitish sea shall cast out fish, and make a noise in the night, which many have not known: but they shall all hear the voice thereof.
2 Esdras 5:8
There shall be a confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruous women shall bring forth monsters:
2 Esdras 5:9
And salt waters shall be found in the sweet, and all friends shall destroy one another; then shall wit hide itself, and understanding withdraw itself into his secret chamber,
2 Esdras 5:12
At the same time shall men hope, but nothing obtain: they shall labour, but their ways shall not prosper.
2 Esdras 5:15
So the angel that was come to talk with me held me, comforted me, and set me up upon my feet.
2 Esdras 5:16
And in the second night it came to pass, that Salathiel the captain of the people came unto me, saying, Where hast thou been? and why is thy countenance so heavy?
2 Esdras 5:17
Knowest thou not that Israel is committed unto thee in the land of their captivity?
2 Esdras 5:18
Up then, and eat bread, and forsake us not, as the shepherd that leaveth his flock in the hands of cruel wolves.
2 Esdras 5:20
And so I fasted seven days, mourning and weeping, like as Uriel the angel commanded me.
2 Esdras 5:21
And after seven days so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me again,
2 Esdras 5:22
And my soul recovered the spirit of understanding, and I began to talk with the most High again,
2 Esdras 5:23
And said, O Lord that bearest rule, of every wood of the earth, and of all the trees thereof, thou hast chosen thee one only vine:
2 Esdras 5:24
And of all lands of the whole world thou hast chosen thee one pit: and of all the flowers thereof one lily:
2 Esdras 5:25
And of all the depths of the sea thou hast filled thee one river: and of all builded cities thou hast hallowed Sion unto thyself:
2 Esdras 5:26
And of all the fowls that are created thou hast named thee one dove: and of all the cattle that are made thou hast provided thee one sheep:
2 Esdras 5:27
And among all the multitudes of people thou hast gotten thee one people: and unto this people, whom thou lovedst, thou gavest a law that is approved of all.
2 Esdras 5:28
And now, O Lord, why hast thou given this one people over unto many? and upon the one root hast thou prepared others, and why hast thou scattered thy only one people among many?
2 Esdras 5:31
Now when I had spoken these words, the angel that came to me the night afore was sent unto me,
2 Esdras 5:32
And said unto me, Hear me, and I will instruct thee; hearken to the thing that I say, and I shall tell thee more.
2 Esdras 5:34
And I said, No, Lord: but of very grief have I spoken: for my reins pain me every hour, while I labour to comprehend the way of the most High, and to seek out part of his judgment.
2 Esdras 5:35
And he said unto me, Thou canst not. And I said, Wherefore, Lord? whereunto was I born then? or why was not my mother's womb then my grave, that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob, and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel?
2 Esdras 5:36
And he said unto me, Number me the things that are not yet come, gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad, make me the flowers green again that are withered,
2 Esdras 5:37
Open me the places that are closed, and bring me forth the winds that in them are shut up, shew me the image of a voice: and then I will declare to thee the thing that thou labourest to know.
2 Esdras 5:40
Then said he unto me, Like as thou canst do none of these things that I have spoken of, even so canst thou not find out my judgment, or in the end the love that I have promised unto my people.
2 Esdras 5:41
And I said, Behold, O Lord, yet art thou nigh unto them that be reserved till the end: and what shall they do that have been before me, or we that be now, or they that shall come after us?
2 Esdras 5:42
And he said unto me, I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.
2 Esdras 5:43
So I answered and said, Couldest thou not make those that have been made, and be now, and that are for to come, at once; that thou mightest shew thy judgment the sooner?
2 Esdras 5:44
Then answered he me, and said, The creature may not haste above the maker; neither may the world hold them at once that shall be created therein.
2 Esdras 5:45
And I said, As thou hast said unto thy servant, that thou, which givest life to all, hast given life at once to the creature that thou hast created, and the creature bare it: even so it might now also bear them that now be present at once.
2 Esdras 5:46
And he said unto me, Ask the womb of a woman, and say unto her, If thou bringest forth children, why dost thou it not together, but one after another? pray her therefore to bring forth ten children at once.
2 Esdras 5:48
Then said he unto me, Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times.
2 Esdras 5:49
For like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
2 Esdras 5:50
And I asked, and said, Seeing thou hast now given me the way, I will proceed to speak before thee: for our mother, of whom thou hast told me that she is young, draweth now nigh unto age.
2 Esdras 5:53
And she shall answer thee, They that be born in the the strength of youth are of one fashion, and they that are born in the time of age, when the womb faileth, are otherwise.
2 Esdras 5:55
And so are they that come after you less than ye, as the creatures which now begin to be old, and have passed over the strength of youth.
2 Esdras 6:1
And he said unto me, In the beginning, when the earth was made, before the borders of the world stood, or ever the winds blew,
2 Esdras 6:2
Before it thundered and lightened, or ever the foundations of paradise were laid,
2 Esdras 6:3
Before the fair flowers were seen, or ever the moveable powers were established, before the innumerable multitude of angels were gathered together,
2 Esdras 6:4
Or ever the heights of the air were lifted up, before the measures of the firmament were named, or ever the chimneys in Sion were hot,
2 Esdras 6:5
And ere the present years were sought out, and or ever the inventions of them that now sin were turned, before they were sealed that have gathered faith for a treasure:
2 Esdras 6:7
Then answered I and said, What shall be the parting asunder of the times? or when shall be the end of the first, and the beginning of it that followeth?
2 Esdras 6:8
And he said unto me, From Abraham unto Isaac, when Jacob and Esau were born of him, Jacob's hand held first the heel of Esau.
2 Esdras 6:9
For Esau is the end of the world, and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth.
2 Esdras 6:10
The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand: other question, Esdras, ask thou not.
2 Esdras 6:12
I beseech thee, shew thy servant the end of thy tokens, whereof thou shewedst me part the last night.
2 Esdras 6:14
And it shall be as it were a great motion; but the place where thou standest shall not be moved.
2 Esdras 6:15
And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid: for the word is of the end, and the foundation of the earth is understood.
2 Esdras 6:16
And why? because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved: for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed.
2 Esdras 6:17
And it happened, that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet, and hearkened, and, behold, there was a voice that spake, and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters.
2 Esdras 6:18
And it said, Behold, the days come, that I will begin to draw nigh, and to visit them that dwell upon the earth,
2 Esdras 6:19
And will begin to make inquisition of them, what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness, and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled;
2 Esdras 6:20
And when the world, that shall begin to vanish away, shall be finished, then will I shew these tokens: the books shall be opened before the firmament, and they shall see all together:
2 Esdras 6:21
And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices, the women with child shall bring forth untimely children of three or four months old, and they shall live, and be raised up.
2 Esdras 6:22
And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown, the full storehouses shall suddenly be found empty:
2 Esdras 6:24
At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies, and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein, the springs of the fountains shall stand still, and in three hours they shall not run.
2 Esdras 6:25
Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee shall escape, and see my salvation, and the end of your world.
2 Esdras 6:26
And the men that are received shall see it, who have not tasted death from their birth: and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed, and turned into another meaning.
2 Esdras 6:28
As for faith, it shall flourish, corruption shall be overcome, and the truth, which hath been so long without fruit, shall be declared.
2 Esdras 6:30
And these words said he unto me; I am come to shew thee the time of the night to come.
2 Esdras 6:32
For thy voice is heard before the most High: for the Mighty hath seen thy righteous dealing, he hath seen also thy chastity, which thou hast had ever since thy youth.
2 Esdras 6:34
And hasten not with the times that are past, to think vain things, that thou mayest not hasten from the latter times.
2 Esdras 6:35
And it came to pass after this, that I wept again, and fasted seven days in like manner, that I might fulfil the three weeks which he told me.
2 Esdras 6:36
And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again, and I began to speak before the most High.
2 Esdras 6:38
And I said, O Lord, thou spakest from the beginning of the creation, even the first day, and saidst thus; Let heaven and earth be made; and thy word was a perfect work.
2 Esdras 6:39
And then was the spirit, and darkness and silence were on every side; the sound of man's voice was not yet formed.
2 Esdras 6:41
Upon the second day thou madest the spirit of the firmament, and commandedst it to part asunder, and to make a division betwixt the waters, that the one part might go up, and the other remain beneath.
2 Esdras 6:42
Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth: six pats hast thou dried up, and kept them, to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve thee.
2 Esdras 6:43
For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made.
2 Esdras 6:44
For immediately there was great and innumerable fruit, and many and divers pleasures for the taste, and flowers of unchangeable colour, and odours of wonderful smell: and this was done the third day.
2 Esdras 6:45
Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine, and the moon give her light, and the stars should be in order:
2 Esdras 6:47
Upon the fifth day thou saidst unto the seventh part, where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures, fowls and fishes: and so it came to pass.
2 Esdras 6:48
For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God, that all people might praise thy wondrous works.
2 Esdras 6:49
Then didst thou ordain two living creatures, the one thou calledst Enoch, and the other Leviathan;
2 Esdras 6:50
And didst separate the one from the other: for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both.
2 Esdras 6:51
Unto Enoch thou gavest one part, which was dried up the third day, that he should dwell in the same part, wherein are a thousand hills:
2 Esdras 6:52
But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part, namely, the moist; and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt, and when.
2 Esdras 6:53
Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth, that before thee it should bring forth beasts, cattle, and creeping things:
2 Esdras 6:54
And after these, Adam also, whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures: of him come we all, and the people also whom thou hast chosen.
2 Esdras 6:55
All this have I spoken before thee, O Lord, because thou madest the world for our sakes
2 Esdras 6:56
As for the other people, which also come of Adam, thou hast said that they are nothing, but be like unto spittle: and hast likened the abundance of them unto a drop that falleth from a vessel.
2 Esdras 6:59
If the world now be made for our sakes, why do we not possess an inheritance with the world? how long shall this endure?
2 Esdras 7:1
And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent unto me the angel which had been sent unto me the nights afore:
2 Esdras 7:2
And he said unto me, Up, Esdras, and hear the words that I am come to tell thee.
2 Esdras 7:3
And I said, Speak on, my God. Then said he unto me, The sea is set in a wide place, that it might be deep and great.
2 Esdras 7:4
But put the case the entrance were narrow, and like a river;
2 Esdras 7:5
Who then could go into the sea to look upon it, and to rule it? if he went not through the narrow, how could he come into the broad?
2 Esdras 7:7
The entrance thereof is narrow, and is set in a dangerous place to fall, like as if there were a fire on the right hand, and on the left a deep water:
2 Esdras 7:8
And one only path between them both, even between the fire and the water, so small that there could but one man go there at once.
2 Esdras 7:9
If this city now were given unto a man for an inheritance, if he never shall pass the danger set before it, how shall he receive this inheritance?
2 Esdras 7:11
Because for their sakes I made the world: and when Adam transgressed my statutes, then was decreed that now is done.
2 Esdras 7:12
Then were the entrances of this world made narrow, full of sorrow and travail: they are but few and evil, full of perils,: and very painful.
2 Esdras 7:13
For the entrances of the elder world were wide and sure, and brought immortal fruit.
2 Esdras 7:17
Then answered I and said, O Lord that bearest rule, thou hast ordained in thy law, that the righteous should inherit these things, but that the ungodly should perish.
2 Esdras 7:18
Nevertheless the righteous shall suffer strait things, and hope for wide: for they that have done wickedly have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.
2 Esdras 7:19
And he said unto me. There is no judge above God, and none that hath understanding above the Highest.
2 Esdras 7:20
For there be many that perish in this life, because they despise the law of God that is set before them.
2 Esdras 7:23
And deceived themselves by their wicked deeds; and said of the most High, that he is not; and knew not his ways:
2 Esdras 7:25
And therefore, Esdras, for the empty are empty things, and for the full are the full things.
2 Esdras 7:26
Behold, the time shall come, that these tokens which I have told thee shall come to pass, and the bride shall appear, and she coming forth shall be seen, that now is withdrawn from the earth.
2 Esdras 7:27
And whosoever is delivered from the foresaid evils shall see my wonders.
2 Esdras 7:30
And the world shall be turned into the old silence seven days, like as in the former judgments: so that no man shall remain.
2 Esdras 7:31
And after seven days the world, that yet awaketh not, shall be raised up, and that shall die that is corrupt
2 Esdras 7:32
And the earth shall restore those that are asleep in her, and so shall the dust those that dwell in silence, and the secret places shall deliver those souls that were committed unto them.
2 Esdras 7:33
And the most High shall appear upon the seat of judgment, and misery shall pass away, and the long suffering shall have an end:
2 Esdras 7:35
And the work shall follow, and the reward shall be shewed, and the good deeds shall be of force, and wicked deeds shall bear no rule.
2 Esdras 7:36
Then said I, Abraham prayed first for the Sodomites, and Moses for the fathers that sinned in the wilderness:
2 Esdras 7:37
And Jesus after him for Israel in the time of Achan:
2 Esdras 7:38
And Samuel and David for the destruction: and Solomon for them that should come to the sanctuary:
2 Esdras 7:39
And Helias for those that received rain; and for the dead, that he might live:
2 Esdras 7:40
And Ezechias for the people in the time of Sennacherib: and many for many.
2 Esdras 7:41
Even so now, seeing corruption is grown up, and wickedness increased, and the righteous have prayed for the ungodly: wherefore shall it not be so now also?
2 Esdras 7:42
He answered me, and said, This present life is not the end where much glory doth abide; therefore have they prayed for the weak.
2 Esdras 7:43
But the day of doom shall be the end of this time, and the beginning of the immortality for to come, wherein corruption is past,
2 Esdras 7:45
Then shall no man be able to save him that is destroyed, nor to oppress him that hath gotten the victory.
2 Esdras 7:46
I answered then and said, This is my first and last saying, that it had been better not to have given the earth unto Adam: or else, when it was given him, to have restrained him from sinning.
2 Esdras 7:49
For what profit is it unto us, if there be promised us an immortal time, whereas we have done the works that bring death?
2 Esdras 7:52
And that the glory of the most High is kept to defend them which have led a wary life, whereas we have walked in the most wicked ways of all?
2 Esdras 7:55
And that the faces of them which have used abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness?
2 Esdras 7:57
Then answered he me, and said, This is the condition of the battle, which man that is born upon the earth shall fight;
2 Esdras 7:58
That, if he be overcome, he shall suffer as thou hast said: but if he get the victory, he shall receive the thing that I say.
2 Esdras 7:59
For this is the life whereof Moses spake unto the people while he lived, saying, Choose thee life, that thou mayest live.
2 Esdras 7:60
Nevertheless they believed not him, nor yet the prophets after him, no nor me which have spoken unto them,
2 Esdras 7:62
I answered then, and said, I know, Lord, that the most High is called merciful, in that he hath mercy upon them which are not yet come into the world,
2 Esdras 7:67
For if he shall not multiply his mercies, the world would not continue with them that inherit therein.
2 Esdras 7:68
And he pardoneth; for if he did not so of his goodness, that they which have committed iniquities might be eased of them, the ten thousandth part of men should not remain living.
2 Esdras 7:69
And being judge, if he should not forgive them that are cured with his word, and put out the multitude of contentions,
2 Esdras 8:1
And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few.
2 Esdras 8:2
I will tell thee a similitude, Esdras; As when thou askest the earth, it shall say unto thee, that it giveth much mould whereof earthen vessels are made, but little dust that gold cometh of: even so is the course of this present world.
2 Esdras 8:6
O Lord, if thou suffer not thy servant, that we may pray before thee, and thou give us seed unto our heart, and culture to our understanding, that there may come fruit of it; how shall each man live that is corrupt, who beareth the place of a man?
2 Esdras 8:8
For when the body is fashioned now in the mother's womb, and thou givest it members, thy creature is preserved in fire and water, and nine months doth thy workmanship endure thy creature which is created in her.
2 Esdras 8:9
But that which keepeth and is kept shall both be preserved: and when the time cometh, the womb preserved delivereth up the things that grew in it.
2 Esdras 8:10
For thou hast commanded out of the parts of the body, that is to say, out of the breasts, milk to be given, which is the fruit of the breasts,
2 Esdras 8:11
That the thing which is fashioned may be nourished for a time, till thou disposest it to thy mercy.
2 Esdras 8:14
If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved.
2 Esdras 8:17
Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land.
2 Esdras 8:18
But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come.
2 Esdras 8:19
Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up: and I said,
2 Esdras 8:20
O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;
2 Esdras 8:21
Whose throne is inestimable; whose glory may not be comprehended; before whom the hosts of angels stand with trembling,
2 Esdras 8:23
Whose look drieth up the depths, and indignation maketh the mountains to melt away; which the truth witnesseth:
2 Esdras 8:24
O hear the prayer of thy servant, and give ear to the petition of thy creature.
2 Esdras 8:26
O look not upon the sins of thy people; but on them which serve thee in truth.
2 Esdras 8:27
Regard not the wicked inventions of the heathen, but the desire of those that keep thy testimonies in afflictions.
2 Esdras 8:33
For the just, which have many good works laid up with thee, shall out of their own deeds receive reward.
2 Esdras 8:35
For in truth them is no man among them that be born, but he hath dealt wickedly; and among the faithful there is none which hath not done amiss.
2 Esdras 8:36
For in this, O Lord, thy righteousness and thy goodness shall be declared, if thou be merciful unto them which have not the confidence of good works.
2 Esdras 8:38
For indeed I will not think on the disposition of them which have sinned before death, before judgment, before destruction:
2 Esdras 8:39
But I will rejoice over the disposition of the righteous, and I will remember also their pilgrimage, and the salvation, and the reward, that they shall have.
2 Esdras 8:41
For as the husbandman soweth much seed upon the ground, and planteth many trees, and yet the thing that is sown good in his season cometh not up, neither doth all that is planted take root: even so is it of them that are sown in the world; they shall not all be saved.
2 Esdras 8:43
Like as the husbandman's seed perisheth, if it come not up, and receive not thy rain in due season; or if there come too much rain, and corrupt it:
2 Esdras 8:44
Even so perisheth man also, which is formed with thy hands, and is called thine own image, because thou art like unto him, for whose sake thou hast made all things, and likened him unto the husbandman's seed.
2 Esdras 8:46
Then answered he me, and said, Things present are for the present, and things to cometh for such as be to come.
2 Esdras 8:47
For thou comest far short that thou shouldest be able to love my creature more than I: but I have ofttimes drawn nigh unto thee, and unto it, but never to the unrighteous.
2 Esdras 8:48
In this also thou art marvellous before the most High:
2 Esdras 8:49
In that thou hast humbled thyself, as it becometh thee, and hast not judged thyself worthy to be much glorified among the righteous.
2 Esdras 8:50
For many great miseries shall be done to them that in the latter time shall dwell in the world, because they have walked in great pride.
2 Esdras 8:51
But understand thou for thyself, and seek out the glory for such as be like thee.
2 Esdras 8:52
For unto you is paradise opened, the tree of life is planted, the time to come is prepared, plenteousness is made ready, a city is builded, and rest is allowed, yea, perfect goodness and wisdom.
2 Esdras 8:53
The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness and the moth is hid from you, and corruption is fled into hell to be forgotten:
2 Esdras 8:54
Sorrows are passed, and in the end is shewed the treasure of immortality.
2 Esdras 8:55
And therefore ask thou no more questions concerning the multitude of them that perish.
2 Esdras 8:56
For when they had taken liberty, they despised the most High, thought scorn of his law, and forsook his ways.
2 Esdras 8:59
For as the things aforesaid shalt receive you, so thirst and pain are prepared for them: for it was not his will that men should come to nought:
2 Esdras 8:60
But they which be created have defiled the name of him that made them, and were unthankful unto him which prepared life for them.
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Behold, O Lord, now hast thou shewed me the multitude of the wonders, which thou wilt begin to do in the last times: but at what time, thou hast not shewed me.
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He answered me then, and said, Measure thou the time diligently in itself: and when thou seest part of the signs past, which I have told thee before,
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Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.
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Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:
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Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.
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For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:
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Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.
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Shall be preserved from the said perils, and shall see my salvation in my land, and within my borders: for I have sanctified them for me from the beginning.
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The same must know it after death by pain.
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And therefore be thou not curious how the ungodly shall be punished, and when: but enquire how the righteous shall be saved, whose the world is, and for whom the world is created.
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And he answered me, saying, Like as the field is, so is also the seed; as the flowers be, such are the colours also; such as the workman is, such also is the work; and as the husbandman is himself, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.
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And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made, even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against me.
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For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a perpetual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid themselves.
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So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril because of the devices that were come into it.
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And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.
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Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I made it perfect.
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But go into a field of flowers, where no house is builded, and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no wine, but eat flowers only;)
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And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.
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So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same satisfied me.
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After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:
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And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,
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O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.
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But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did not perish, neither could it, for it was thine;
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Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.
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And, lo, it is a custom, when the ground hath received seed, or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being perished wherein it was sown or cast into,
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For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received it
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Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.
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And when I spake these things in my heart, I looked back with mine eyes, and upon the right side I saw a woman, and, behold, she mourned and wept with a loud voice, and was much grieved in heart, and her clothes were rent, and she had ashes upon her head.
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And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.
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After thirty years God heard me thine handmaid, looked upon my misery, considered my trouble, and gave me a son: and I was very glad of him, so was my husband also, and all my neighbours: and we gave great honour unto the Almighty.
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So when he grew up, and came to the time that he should have a wife, I made a feast.
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Then we all overthrew the lights, and all my neighbours rose up to comfort me: so I took my rest unto the second day at night.
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And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet; then rose I up by night and fled, and came hither into this field, as thou seest.
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And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.
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Then left I the meditations wherein I was, and spake to her in anger, saying,
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For ask the earth, and she shall tell thee, that it is she which ought to mourn for the fall of so many that grow upon her.
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For out of her came all at the first, and out of her shall all others come, and, behold, they walk almost all into destruction, and a multitude of them is utterly rooted out.
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But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth's, because I have lost the fruit of my womb, which I brought forth with pains, and bare with sorrows;
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But the earth not so: for the multitude present in it according to the course of the earth is gone, as it came:
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Then say I unto thee, Like as thou hast brought forth with labour; even so the earth also hath given her fruit, namely, man, ever since the beginning unto him that made her.
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For if thou shalt acknowledge the determination of God to be just, thou shalt both receive thy son in time, and shalt be commended among women.
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Go thy way then into the city to thine husband.
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And she said unto me, That will I not do: I will not go into the city, but here will I die.
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Do not so, but be counselled. by me: for how many are the adversities of Sion? be comforted in regard of the sorrow of Jerusalem.
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Our psaltery is laid on the ground, our song is put to silence, our rejoicing is at an end, the light of our candlestick is put out, the ark of our covenant is spoiled, our holy things are defiled, and the name that is called upon us is almost profaned: our children are put to shame, our priests are burnt, our Levites are gone into captivity, our virgins are defiled, and our wives ravished; our righteous men carried away, our little ones destroyed, our young men are brought in bondage, and our strong men are become weak;
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And, which is the greatest of all, the seal of Sion hath now lost her honour; for she is delivered into the hands of them that hate us.
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And therefore shake off thy great heaviness, and put away the multitude of sorrows, that the Mighty may be merciful unto thee again, and the Highest shall give thee rest and ease from thy labour.
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And, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful: so that the earth shook at the noise of the woman.
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And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared unto me no more, but there was a city builded, and a large place shewed itself from the foundations: then was I afraid, and cried with a loud voice, and said,
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Where is Uriel the angel, who came unto me at the first? for he hath caused me to fall into many trances, and mine end is turned into corruption, and my prayer to rebuke.
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And, lo, I lay as one that had been dead, and mine understanding was taken from me: and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said unto me,
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What aileth thee? and why art thou so disquieted? and why is thine understanding troubled, and the thoughts of thine heart?
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And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me, and yet I did according to thy words, and I went into the field, and, lo, I have seen, and yet see, that I am not able to express.
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He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee.
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This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest:
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But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city builded.
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And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the solution:
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Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her.
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But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son.
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And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.
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But whereas she said unto thee, That my son coming into his marriage chamber happened to have a fail, and died: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.
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For now the most High seeth that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, so hath he shewed thee the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:
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And therefore I bade thee remain in the field where no house was builded:
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For I knew that the Highest would shew this unto thee.
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Therefore I commanded thee to go into the field, where no foundation of any building was.
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For in the place wherein the Highest beginneth to shew his city, there can no man's building be able to stand.
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And therefore fear not, let not thine heart be affrighted, but go thy way in, and see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as thine eyes be able to see:
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For thou art blessed above many other, and art called with the Highest; and so are but few.
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And so shall the Highest shew thee visions of the high things, which the most High will do unto them that dwell upon the earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.
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Then saw I a dream, and, behold, there came up from the sea an eagle, which had twelve feathered wings, and three heads.
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And I saw, and, behold, she spread her wings over all the earth, and all the winds of the air blew on her, and were gathered together.
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But her heads were at rest: the head in the midst was greater than the other, yet rested it with the residue.
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Moreover I beheld, and, lo, the eagle flew with her feathers, and reigned upon earth, and over them that dwelt therein.
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And I beheld, and, lo, the eagle rose upon her talons, and spake to her feathers, saying,
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But let the heads be preserved for the last.
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And I beheld, and, lo, the voice went not out of her heads, but from the midst of her body.
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And I looked, and, behold, on the right side there arose one feather, and reigned over all the earth;
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And so it was, that when it reigned, the end of it came, and the place thereof appeared no more: so the next following stood up. and reigned, and had a great time;
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And it happened, that when it reigned, the end of it came also, like as the first, so that it appeared no more.
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Hear thou that hast borne rule over the earth so long: this I say unto thee, before thou beginnest to appear no more,
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There shall none after thee attain unto thy time, neither unto the half thereof.
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Then arose the third, and reigned as the other before, and appeared no more also.
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So went it with all the residue one after another, as that every one reigned, and then appeared no more.
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Then I beheld, and, lo, in process of time the feathers that followed stood up upon the right side, that they might rule also; and some of them ruled, but within a while they appeared no more:
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After this I looked, and, behold, the twelve feathers appeared no more, nor the two little feathers:
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And there was no more upon the eagle's body, but three heads that rested, and six little wings.
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Then saw I also that two little feathers divided themselves from the six, and remained under the head that was upon the right side: for the four continued in their place.
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And I beheld, and, lo, the feathers that were under the wing thought to set up themselves and to have the rule.
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And the second was sooner away than the first.
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And I beheld, and, lo, the two that remained thought also in themselves to reign:
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And when they so thought, behold, there awaked one of the heads that were at rest, namely, it that was in the midst; for that was greater than the two other heads.
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And then I saw that the two other heads were joined with it.
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And, behold, the head was turned with them that were with it, and did eat up the two feathers under the wing that would have reigned.
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But this head put the whole earth in fear, and bare rule in it over all those that dwelt upon the earth with much oppression; and it had the governance of the world more than all the wings that had been.
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And after this I beheld, and, lo, the head that was in the midst suddenly appeared no more, like as the wings.
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But there remained the two heads, which also in like sort ruled upon the earth, and over those that dwelt therein.
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And I beheld, and, lo, the head upon the right side devoured it that was upon the left side.
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Then I head a voice, which said unto me, Look before thee, and consider the thing that thou seest.
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And I beheld, and lo, as it were a roaring lion chased out of the wood: and I saw that he sent out a man's voice unto the eagle, and said,
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Hear thou, I will talk with thee, and the Highest shall say unto thee,
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Art not thou it that remainest of the four beasts, whom I made to reign in my world, that the end of their times might come through them?
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And the fourth came, and overcame all the beasts that were past, and had power over the world with great fearfulness, and over the whole compass of the earth with much wicked oppression; and so long time dwelt he upon the earth with deceit.
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For the earth hast thou not judged with truth.
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For thou hast afflicted the meek, thou hast hurt the peaceable, thou hast loved liars, and destroyed the dwellings of them that brought forth fruit, and hast cast down the walls of such as did thee no harm.
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Therefore is thy wrongful dealing come up unto the Highest, and thy pride unto the Mighty.
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The Highest also hath looked upon the proud times, and, behold, they are ended, and his abominations are fulfilled.
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That all the earth may be refreshed, and may return, being delivered from thy violence, and that she may hope for the judgment and mercy of him that made her.
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And it came to pass, whiles the lion spake these words unto the eagle, I saw,
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And, behold, the head that remained and the four wings appeared no more, and the two went unto it and set themselves up to reign, and their kingdom was small, and fill of uproar.
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And I saw, and, behold, they appeared no more, and the whole body of the eagle was burnt so that the earth was in great fear: then awaked I out of the trouble and trance of my mind, and from great fear, and said unto my spirit,
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Lo, this hast thou done unto me, in that thou searchest out the ways of the Highest.
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Lo, yet am I weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; and little strength is there in me, for the great fear wherewith I was afflicted this night.
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Therefore will I now beseech the Highest, that he will comfort me unto the end.
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Comfort me then, and shew me thy servant the interpretation and plain difference of this fearful vision, that thou mayest perfectly comfort my soul.
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For thou hast judged me worthy to shew me the last times.
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And he said unto me, This is the interpretation of the vision:
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The eagle, whom thou sawest come up from the sea, is the kingdom which was seen in the vision of thy brother Daniel.
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Behold, the days will come, that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
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In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another:
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Whereof the second shall begin to reign, and shall have more time than any of the twelve.
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And this do the twelve wings signify, which thou sawest.
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As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
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That after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of failing: nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.
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And whereas thou sawest the eight small under feathers sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:
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And two of them shall perish, the middle time approaching: four shall be kept until their end begin to approach: but two shall be kept unto the end.
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And whereas thou sawest three heads resting, this is the interpretation:
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In his last days shall the most High raise up three kingdoms, and renew many things therein, and they shall have the dominion of the earth,
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And of those that dwell therein, with much oppression, above all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the eagle.
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And whereas thou sawest that the great head appeared no more, it signifieth that one of them shall die upon his bed, and yet with pain.
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For the two that remain shall be slain with the sword.
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For the sword of the one shall devour the other: but at the last shall he fall through the sword himself.
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And whereas thou sawest two feathers under the wings passing over the head that is on the right side;
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It signifieth that these are they, whom the Highest hath kept unto their end: this is the small kingdom and full of trouble, as thou sawest.
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And the lion, whom thou sawest rising up out of the wood, and roaring, and speaking to the eagle, and rebuking her for her unrighteousness with all the words which thou hast heard;
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This is the anointed, which the Highest hath kept for them and for their wickedness unto the end: he shall reprove them, and shall upbraid them with their cruelty.
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For the rest of my people shall he deliver with mercy, those that have been pressed upon my borders, and he shall make them joyful until the coming of the day of judgment, whereof I have spoken unto thee from the the beginning.
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This is the dream that thou sawest, and these are the interpretations.
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Thou only hast been meet to know this secret of the Highest.
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And teach them to the wise of the people, whose hearts thou knowest may comprehend and keep these secrets.
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But wait thou here thyself yet seven days more, that it may be shewed thee, whatsoever it pleaseth the Highest to declare unto thee. And with that he went his way.
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And it came to pass, when all the people saw that the seven days were past, and I not come again into the city, they gathered them all together, from the least unto the greatest, and came unto me, and said,
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For of all the prophets thou only art left us, as a cluster of the vintage, and as a candle in a dark place, and as a haven or ship preserved from the tempest.
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Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?
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If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?
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For the Highest hath you in remembrance, and the Mighty hath not forgotten you in temptation.
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As for me, I have not forsaken you, neither am I departed from you: but am come into this place, to pray for the desolation of Sion, and that I might seek mercy for the low estate of your sanctuary.
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So the people went their way into the city, like as I commanded them:
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But I remained still in the field seven days, as the angel commanded me; and did eat only in those days of the flowers of the field, and had my meat of the herbs.
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And, lo, there arose a wind from the sea, that it moved all the waves thereof.
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And I beheld, and, lo, that man waxed strong with the thousands of heaven: and when he turned his countenance to look, all the things trembled that were seen under him.
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And whensoever the voice went out of his mouth, all they burned that heard his voice, like as the earth faileth when it feeleth the fire.
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And after this I beheld, and, lo, there was gathered together a multitude of men, out of number, from the four winds of the heaven, to subdue the man that came out of the sea
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But I would have seen the region or place whereout the hill was graven, and I could not.
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And, lo, as he saw the violence of the multitude that came, he neither lifted up his hand, nor held sword, nor any instrument of war:
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And they were all mixed together; the blast of fire, the flaming breath, and the great tempest; and fell with violence upon the multitude which was prepared to fight, and burned them up every one, so that upon a sudden of an innumerable multitude nothing was to be perceived, but only dust and smell of smoke: when I saw this I was afraid.
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Afterward saw I the same man come down from the mountain, and call unto him another peaceable Multitude.
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Thou hast shewed thy servant these wonders from the beginning, and hast counted me worthy that thou shouldest receive my prayer:
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Shew me now yet the interpretation of this dream.
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Now understand I the things that are laid up in the latter days, which shall happen unto them, and to those that are left behind.
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Yet is it easier for him that is in danger to come into these things, than to pass away as a cloud out of the world, and not to see the things that happen in the last days. And he answered unto me, and said,
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The interpretation of the vision shall I shew thee, and I will open unto thee the thing that thou hast required.
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Whereas thou hast spoken of them that are left behind, this is the interpretation:
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He that shall endure the peril in that time hath kept himself: they that be fallen into danger are such as have works, and faith toward the Almighty.
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This is the meaning of the vision: Whereas thou sawest a man coming up from the midst of the sea:
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The same is he whom God the Highest hath kept a great season, which by his own self shall deliver his creature: and he shall order them that are left behind.
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And that he held neither sword, nor any instrument of war, but that the rushing in of him destroyed the whole multitude that came to subdue him; this is the interpretation:
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Behold, the days come, when the most High will begin to deliver them that are upon the earth.
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And he shall come to the astonishment of them that dwell on the earth.
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And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
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And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another.
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But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
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And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.
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And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;
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And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is like unto me.
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Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
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But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
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And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
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For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
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For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
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Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
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The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.
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Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.
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Then said I, O Lord that bearest rule, shew me this: Wherefore have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?
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And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the day time.
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This is the interpretation of the dream which thou sawest, and whereby thou only art here lightened.
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And therefore have I shewed thee the treasures of the Highest: after other three days I will speak other things unto thee, and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things.
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Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;
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And because he governeth the same, and such things as fall in their seasons: and there I sat three days.
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And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush over against me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
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Then said he unto me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself unto Moses, and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt:
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And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him up to the mount of where I held him by me a long season,
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And told him many wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end; and commanded him, saying,
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That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:
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For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
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For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
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For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
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And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
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Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
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And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times.
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For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
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For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
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Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
2 Esdras 14:21
For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin.
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But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.
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And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days.
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And come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write.
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And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise: to morrow this hour shalt thou begin to write.
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Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
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Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered:
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And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
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Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
2 Esdras 14:32
And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
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For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
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So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
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And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.
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Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was like fire.
2 Esdras 14:42
The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.
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As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
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And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
2 Esdras 14:46
But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people:
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For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
2 Esdras 15:1
Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:
2 Esdras 15:3
Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.
2 Esdras 15:4
For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.
2 Esdras 15:5
Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.
2 Esdras 15:6
For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
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Therefore saith the Lord,
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I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just complain continually.
2 Esdras 15:9
And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
2 Esdras 15:10
Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
2 Esdras 15:11
But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
2 Esdras 15:12
Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.
2 Esdras 15:13
They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
2 Esdras 15:14
Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
2 Esdras 15:15
For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.
2 Esdras 15:16
For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.
2 Esdras 15:18
For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
2 Esdras 15:19
A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
2 Esdras 15:20
Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
2 Esdras 15:21
Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;
2 Esdras 15:22
My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
2 Esdras 15:23
The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
2 Esdras 15:24
Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
2 Esdras 15:25
I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.
2 Esdras 15:26
For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
2 Esdras 15:27
For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
2 Esdras 15:28
Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:
2 Esdras 15:29
Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of them shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they which hear them may fear and tremble.
2 Esdras 15:30
Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.
2 Esdras 15:31
And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
2 Esdras 15:33
And from the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and dread, and strife among their kings.
2 Esdras 15:34
Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
2 Esdras 15:35
They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,
2 Esdras 15:36
And dung of men unto the camel's hough.
2 Esdras 15:37
And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon earth: and they that see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall come upon them.
2 Esdras 15:38
And then shall there come great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.
2 Esdras 15:39
And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall open it; and the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the star stirred to cause fear toward the east and west wind, shall be destroyed.
2 Esdras 15:40
The great and mighty clouds shall be puffed up full of wrath, and the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent place an horrible star,
2 Esdras 15:41
Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters.
2 Esdras 15:42
And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.
2 Esdras 15:44
They shall come to her, and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that be about her shall bewail her.
2 Esdras 15:46
And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:
2 Esdras 15:50
And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower, the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.
2 Esdras 15:51
Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee.
2 Esdras 15:52
Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,
2 Esdras 15:53
If thou hadst not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and saying over their dead, when thou wast drunken,
2 Esdras 15:54
Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?
2 Esdras 15:55
The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom, therefore shalt thou receive recompence.
2 Esdras 15:56
Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief
2 Esdras 15:57
Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.
2 Esdras 15:58
They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.
2 Esdras 15:59
Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea, and receive plagues again.
2 Esdras 15:60
And in the passage they shall rush on the idle city, and shall destroy some portion of thy land, and consume part of thy glory, and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed.
2 Esdras 15:63
Thy children shall they carry away captive, and, look, what thou hast, they shall spoil it, and mar the beauty of thy face.
2 Esdras 16:6
May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? or may any one quench the fire in stubble, when it hath begun to burn?
2 Esdras 16:7
May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?
2 Esdras 16:8
The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues and who is he that can drive them away?
2 Esdras 16:11
The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder at his presence?
2 Esdras 16:12
The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of his power:
2 Esdras 16:13
For strong is his right hand that bendeth the bow, his arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.
2 Esdras 16:14
Behold, the plagues are sent, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.
2 Esdras 16:15
The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundation of the earth.
2 Esdras 16:16
Like as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returneth not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall not return again.
2 Esdras 16:18
The beginning of sorrows and great mournings; the beginning of famine and great death; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils! what shall I do when these evils shall come?
2 Esdras 16:20
But for all these things they shall not turn from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
2 Esdras 16:22
For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.
2 Esdras 16:23
And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down.
2 Esdras 16:24
There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it
2 Esdras 16:25
The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
2 Esdras 16:26
The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for all places shall be desolate of men:
2 Esdras 16:28
For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which shall hide themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
2 Esdras 16:30
Or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are left some clusters of them that diligently seek through the vineyard:
2 Esdras 16:31
Even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword.
2 Esdras 16:32
And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough.
2 Esdras 16:33
The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.
2 Esdras 16:34
In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
2 Esdras 16:35
Hear now these things and understand them, ye servants of the Lord.
2 Esdras 16:36
Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: believe not the gods of whom the Lord spake.
2 Esdras 16:37
Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slack.
2 Esdras 16:38
As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment:
2 Esdras 16:39
Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon it on every side.
2 Esdras 16:40
O my people, hear my word: make you ready to thy battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
2 Esdras 16:43
He that soweth, as if he should not reap: so also he that planteth the vineyard, as he that shall not gather the grapes:
2 Esdras 16:44
They that marry, as they that shall get no children; and they that marry not, as the widowers.
2 Esdras 16:47
And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons:
2 Esdras 16:48
The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the Lord.
2 Esdras 16:51
And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof.
2 Esdras 16:52
For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.
2 Esdras 16:53
Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord God and his glory, I have not sinned.
2 Esdras 16:54
Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:
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