2 Esdras 12
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1ANd when the lion spake these wordes to the egle,I sawe, 2And beholde, the head that had the vpper hand, appeared no more,nether did the foure wings appeare any more, that came to it,and set vp them selues to reigne, whose kingdome was smale and ful of vproares. 3And I sawe, and beholde,they appeared no more, and the whole bodie of the egle was burnt,so that the earth was in great feare. Then I awaked out of the trouble and trance of my minde,and from the great feare,and said vnto my spirit, 4Lo, this hast thou done vnto me in that thou searchest out the waies of the moste High. 5Lo,yet am I wearie in my minde,and very weake in my spirit, and litle strength is there in me, for the great feare that I receiued this night. 6Therefore now I wil beseche the moste High that he wil comfort me vnto the end. 7And I said,O Lord,Lord,if I haue founde grace before thy sight, & if I am iustified with thee before many other, and if my praier in dede be come vp before thy face, 8Comfort me, and shewe me thy seruant the interpretacion and difference of this horrible sight, that thou maist perfectly comforte my soule, 9Seing thou hast iudged me worthie to shewe me the last times. 10¶ Then he said vnto me, This is the interpretacion of this vision, 11The egle, whome thou sawest come vp from the sea, is the * kingdome which was sene in the vision of thy brother Daniel. 12But it was not expounded vnto him:therefore now I declare it vnto thee. 13Beholde,the daies come, that there shal 14In it shal twelue Kings reigne one after another, 15Whereof the seconde shal beginne to reigne and shal haue more time then the twelue. 16And this do the twelue wings signifie, which thou sawest. 17As for the voice that thou heardest speake, and that thou sawest not go out from the heads, but from the middes of the bodie thereof, this is the interpretacion, 18That after the time of that kingdome there shal arise great strife, & it shalbe in danger to fall, but it shal not then fall, but shalbe restored againe to his beginning. 19Concerning the eight vnderwings, which thou sawest hang vnto her wings, this is the interpretacion, 20In him shal arise eight Kings, whose time shal be but smale, and their yeres swift, and two of them shal perish. 21But when the midde time cometh, there shalbe foure kept a time, whiles his time beginneth to come, that it maye be ended, but two shalbe kept vnto the end. 22And where as thou sawest thre heads resting, this is the interpretacion, 23In his last dayes shal the moste High raise vp thre kingdomes, and shal call againe manie things into them, and they shal haue the dominion of the earth, 24And of those that dwell therein, with muche grief aboue all those that were before them: therefore are they called the heads of the egle. 25For they shal accomplish his wickednes, and shal finish his last end. 26And where as thou sawest that the great head appeared no more, it signifieth that one of them shal dye vpon his bed, and yet with peine. 27For the two that remaine, the sworde shal deuoure them. 28For the sworde of the one shal deuoure the other: but at the last, shal he fall by the sworde him self. 29And where as thou sawest two vnderwings, that went of towarde the head, which was on the right side, this is the interpretacion, 30These are thei whome the moste High hathe preserued for their end, whose kingdome is litle, and ful of trouble as thou sawest. 31And the lyon whome thou sawest rising vp out of the wood and roaring, and speaking vnto the egle, and rebuking her for her vnrighteousnes with all the wordes that thou hast heard, 32This is the winde which the moste High hathe kept for them, and for their wickednes vnto the end, & he shal reproue them, and cast before them their spoiles. 33For he shal set them aliue in the iudgement, and shal rebuke them and correct them. 34For he wil deliuer the residue of my people by affliction, which are preserued vpon my borders, and he shal make them ioyful, vntil the comming of the day of iudgement, whereof I haue spoken vnto thee from the beginning. 35This is the dreame that thou sawest, and these are the interpretacions. 36Thou onely hast bene mete to know this secret of the moste High. 37Therefore write all these things that thou hast sene, in a boke and hide them, 38And teache them the wise of the people, whose hearts thou knowest may comprehende and kepe these secrets. 39But waite thou here yet seuen daies mo, that it may be shewed thee whatsoeuer it pleaseth the moste High to declare vnto thee: and with that he went his way. 40And when all the people perceiued, that the seuen daies were past, and I not come againe into the citie, they gathered them all together, from the least vnto the moste, and came vnto me, and spake vnto me, saying, 41What haue we offended thee? or what euil haue we done against thee, that thou forsakest vs, and sittest in this place? 42For of all the people thou onely art left vs as a grape of the vine, and as a candle in a darke place, & as an hauen or shippe preserued from the tempest. 43Are not the euils which are come vnto vs, sufficient? 44If thou then forsake vs, how muche better had it bene for vs, that we had bene burnt also as Sion was burnt? 45For we are no better then they that dyed there: and they wept with a loude voyce. Then answered I them, and said, 46Be of good comfort, ô Israel, and be not heauie, thou house of Iacob. 47For the moste High hathe you in remembrance, & the Almightie hathe not forgotten you in temptacion. 48As for me I haue not forsaken you, nether am I departed from you, but am come into this place to praye for the desolation of Sion, that I might seke mercie for the low estate of your Sanctuarie. 49And now go your way home euerie man, and after these daies wil I come vnto you. 50So the people went their way into the citie, as I commanded them: 51But I remained stil in the field seuen daies, as he had commanded me, and did eat onely of the floures of the field, & had my meat of the herbes in those daies.