Translation comparison

2 Esdras 14:18 in 1 translation

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

Read with nearby context Open chapter 14

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 the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.

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.

17For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.

18For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.

19Then answered I before thee, and said,

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