Translation comparison

2 Esdras 12:44 in 1 translation

Every translation here words this verse identically, which is itself worth knowing — there is no interpretive fork to weigh.

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Early modern English

Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.

King James Version

KJV

If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?

1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.

The verses either side

King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.

43Are not the evils which are come to us sufficient?

44If thou shalt forsake us, how much better had it been for us, if we also had been burned in the midst of Sion?

45For we are not better than they that died there. And they wept with a loud voice. Then answered I them, and said,

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