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KJV

2 Esdras 7:61

That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation.

Parallel Translations

WEBView canonical →
I won’t grieve over the multitude of those who perish; for these are those who are now like mist, and have become like flame and smoke; they are set on fire and burn hotly, and are extinguished.”
World English Bible
GNV1560View canonical →
That heauines shulde not so be to their destruction, as ioye shulde come vnto them, to whome saluacion is persuaded.
Geneva Bible (1560) Apocrypha