2 Esdras 16:52
King James VersionSource notes
“For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.”
Context
49Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:
50So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.
51And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof.
52For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.
53Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord God and his glory, I have not sinned.
54Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:
55Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created.