2 Esdras 16:2
King James VersionSource notes
“Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.”
Context
1Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia! woe be unto thee, Egypt and Syria!
2Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.
3A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?
4A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?
5Plagues are sent unto you, and what is he that may drive them away?