Translation comparison

2 Esdras 9:4 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

Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.

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.

3Therefore when there shall be seen earthquakes and uproars of the people in the world:

4Then shalt thou well understand, that the most High spake of those things from the days that were before thee, even from the beginning.

5For like as all that is made in the world hath a beginning and an end, and the end is manifest:

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