2 Esdras 15
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1BEholde, speake thou in the eares of my people the wordes of prophecie, which I wil put in thy mouth, saith the Lord: 2And cause them to be writen in a lettre: for they are faithful and true. 3Feare not the imaginacions against thee: let not the vnfaithfulnes of the speakers trouble thee, that spake against thee. 4For euery vnfaithful shal dye in his vnfaithfulnes. 6Because that iniquitie hathe fully polluted all the earth, and their wicked workes are fulfiled. 7Therefore, saith the Lord, I wil holde my tongue no more for their wickednes, (they do vngodlie) nether wil I suffer them in the things, that they do wickedly. 8Beholde, the innocent and righteous blood cryeth vnto me, and the soules of the iust crye continually. 9I wil surely auenge them, saith the Lord, and receiue vnto me all the innocent blood from among them. 10Beholde, my people is led as a flocke to the slaughter: I wil not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt, 11But I wil bring them out with a mightie hand, and a stretched out arme, & smite it with plagues as afore, & wil destroie all the land thereof. 12Egypt shal mourne, and the fundacions thereof shalbe smitten with the plague and punishment, that God shal bring vpon it. 13The plowemen that till the grounde, shal mourne: for their sedes shal faile thorowe the blasting and haile, and by an horrible starre. 14Wo to the worlde, & to them that dwell therein. 15For the sworde and their destruction draweth nere, and one people shal stand vp to fight against another with swordes in their hands. 16For there shalbe sedicion among men, & one shal inuade another: they shal not regarde their King, & the princes shal measure their doings by their power. 17A man shal desire to go into a citie, and shal not be able. 18Because of their pride the cities shalbe troubled, the houses shalbe afraied, & men shal feare. 19A man shal haue no pitie vpon his neighbour, but shal destroye their houses with the sworde, & their goods shalbe spoyled for lacke of bread, and because of great trouble. 20Beholde, saith God, I call together all the Kings of the earth to reuerence me, which are from the East, and from the South, from the East, and from Libanus, to turne vpon them, & to repay the things, that they haue done to them. 21As they do yet this day vnto my chosen, so wil I do also, and recompense them in their bosome: thus saith the Lord God, 22My right hand shal not spare the sinners, nether shal the sworde cease from them, that shed innocent blood vpon earth. 23The fyre is gone out from his wrath, and hathe consumed the fundacions of the earth, and the sinners like the strawe, that is kindled. 24Wo to them that sinne, and kepe not my commandements, saith the Lord. 25I wil not spare them: departe, ô children, from the power: defile not my Sanctuarie. 26For the Lord knoweth all them that sinne against him, and therefore deliuereth he them vnto death and destruction. 27For now are the plagues come vpon the worlde, and ye shal remaine in them: for God wil not deliuer you, because ye haue sinned against him. 28Beholde, an horrible vision cometh from the East, 29Where generacions of dragons of Arabia shal come out with manie charets, and the multitude of them shalbe caryed as the winde vpon the earth, that all they which heare them, may feare and tremble. 30Euen the Carmanians raging in wrath, shal go forthe as the bores of the forest, and shal come with great power, and stand against them in battel, and shal destroye a porcion of the land of the Assyrians. 31But after this shal the dragons haue the vpper hand, and remember their nature, and shal turne about, and conspire to consume them with a great power. 32Then these shalbe troubled, and kepe silence by their power, and shal flee. 33From the land of the Assyrians shal the enemie besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their hoste shalbe feare & dread, and strife among their Kings. 34Beholde cloudes from the East, & from the North vnto the South, and they are verie horrible to loke vpon, ful of wrath and storme. 35They shal smite one vpon another: and they shal smite downe a great multitude of starres vpon the earth, euen their owne starre, & the blood shalbe from the sworde vnto the bellie, 36And the dongue of man vnto the Camels litter. 37And there shalbe great fearefulnes, and trembling vpon earth, and thei that se the wrath, shalbe afraied, and a trembling shal come vpon them. 38And then there shal come great stormes from the South, and from the North, and parte from the West. 39And from the East shal windes arise and shal open it with the cloude, which he raised vp in wrath, & the starre, raised to feare the East & West winde, shalbe destroyed. 40And the great, and mightie cloudes shal be lift vp, ful of wrath, and the starre, that they may make all the earth afraied, and them that dwell therein, & that they may powre out ouer euerie hie place, and lifted vp, an horrible constellation, 41As fyre and hayle, and flying swordes, & many waters, that all fields may be full, & all riuers with the abundance of great waters. 42And they shal breake downe the cities and walles, and mountaines, and hilles, and the trees of the wood, and the grasse of the medowes, and their corne. 43And they shal go with a streight course vnto Babylon, and make it afraied. 44They shal come to her, and besiege her, and shal powre forthe the constellation, & all the wrath against her: then shal the dust and smoke go vp vnto the heauen, and all they that be about her, shal bewaile her. 45And thei that remaine vnder her, shal do seruice vnto them, that haue put her in feare. 46¶ And thou Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and the glorie of her persone, 47Wo vnto thee, ô wretch, because thou hast made thy self like vnto her, and hast dect thy daughters in whoredome, that they might please & glorie in thy louers, which haue alway desired to commit whoredome with thee. 48Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her workes, and in her inuencions: therefore saith God, 49I wil send plagues vpon thee, wedowhed, pouertie, and famine, & the sworde, and pestilence, to waste thine houses with destruction and death. 50And the glorie of thy power shalbe dryed vp, as a floure when the heat riseth, that is sent vpon thee. 51Thou shalt be sicke as a poore wife that is plagued and beaten of women, so that the mightie and the louers shal not be able to receiue thee. 52Wolde I thus hate thee, saith the Lord, 53If thou hadest not alway slaine my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and said ouer their death, when thou wast dronken, 54Set forthe the beautie of thy countenance? 55The rewarde of thy whoredome shalbe in thy bosome: therefore shalt thou receiue a rewarde. 56As thou hast done vnto my chosen, saith the Lord, so wil God do vnto thee, & wil deliuer thee vnto the plague. 57And thy children shal dye of hunger, & thou shalt fall by the sworde, & thy cities shalbe broken downe, and all thy men shal fall by the sworde in the field. 58And they that be in the mountaines shal dye of hunger, and eat their owne flesh, & drinke their owne blood for want of bread and thirst of water. 59And thou, as vnhappie, shalt come thorowe the sea, and receiue plagues againe. 60In the passage they shal cast downe the slaine citie, and shal roote out one parte of thy land, & consume the porcion of thy glorie, & shal returne to her that was destroied. 61When thou shalt be cast downe, thou shalt be to them as stubble, and they shalbe to thee as fyre. 62And they shal destroy thee, & thy cities, thy land, & thy mountaines: all thy woods and all thy fruteful trees shal they burne with fyre. 63Thy children shal they carye away captiue, and shal spoile thy substance, & marre the beautie of thy face.