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2 Esdras 9

47 verses · King James Version

  1. 1He 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,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:1
  2. 2Then shalt thou understand, that it is the very same time, wherein the Highest will begin to visit the world which he made.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:2
  3. 3Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:3
  4. 4Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:4
  5. 5For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:5
  6. 6Even so the times also of the Highest have plain beginnings in wonder and powerful works, and endings in effects and signs.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:6
  7. 7And every one that shall be saved, and shall be able to escape by his works, and by faith, whereby ye have believed,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:7
  8. 8Shall 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:8
  9. 9Then shall they be in pitiful case, which now have abused my ways: and they that have cast them away despitefully shall dwell in torments.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:9
  10. 10For such as in their life have received benefits, and have not known me;Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:10
  11. 11And they that have loathed my law, while they had yet liberty, and, when as yet place of repentance was open unto them, understood not, but despised it;Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:11
  12. 12The same must know it after death by pain.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:12
  13. 13And 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:13
  14. 14Then answered I and said,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:14
  15. 15I have said before, and now do speak, and will speak it also hereafter, that there be many more of them which perish, than of them which shall be saved:Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:15
  16. 16Like as a wave is greater than a drop.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:16
  17. 17And 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 ls himself, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the world.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:17
  18. 18And 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:18
  19. 19For 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:19
  20. 20So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril because of the devices that were come into it.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:20
  21. 21And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of the cluster, and a plant of a great people.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:21
  22. 22Let 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:22
  23. 23Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but thou shalt not fast in them,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:23
  24. 24But 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;)Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:24
  25. 25And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and talk with thee.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:25
  26. 26So 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:26
  27. 27After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed within me, like as before:Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:27
  28. 28And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most High, and said,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:28
  29. 29O 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:29
  30. 30And thou spakest saying, Hear me, O Israel; and mark my words, thou seed of Jacob.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:30
  31. 31For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:31
  32. 32But 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;Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:32
  33. 33Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the thing that was sown in them.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:33
  34. 34And, 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,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:34
  35. 35That thing also which was sown, or cast therein, or received, doth perish, and remaineth not with us: but with us it hath not happened so.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:35
  36. 36For we that have received the law perish by sin, and our heart also which received itCompare translations of 2 Esdras 9:36
  37. 37Notwithstanding the law perisheth not, but remaineth in his force.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:37
  38. 38And 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:38
  39. 39Then let I my thoughts go that I was in, and turned me unto her,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:39
  40. 40And said unto her, Wherefore weepest thou? why art thou so grieved in thy mind?Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:40
  41. 41And she said unto me, Sir, let me alone, that I may bewail myself, and add unto my sorrow, for I am sore vexed in my mind, and brought very low.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:41
  42. 42And I said unto her, What aileth thee? tell me.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:42
  43. 43She said unto me, I thy servant have been barren, and had no child, though I had an husband thirty years,Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:43
  44. 44And those thirty years I did nothing else day and night, and every hour, but make my, prayer to the Highest.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:44
  45. 45After 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.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:45
  46. 46And I nourished him with great travail.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:46
  47. 47So when he grew up, and came to the time that he should have a wife, I made a feast.Compare translations of 2 Esdras 9:47