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2 Esdras 13:16 in 1 translation

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

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

For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe unto them that shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not left behind!

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.

15Shew me now yet the interpretation of this dream.
16For as I conceive in mine understanding, woe unto them that shall be left in those days and much more woe unto them that are not left behind!
17For they that were not left were in heaviness.

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