them.
2 Esdr 2:12 They shall have the tree of life for an ointment of sweet savour; they shall neither labour, nor be weary.
2 Esdr 2:13 Go, and ye shall receive: pray for few days unto you, that they may be shortened: the kingdom is already prepared for you: watch.
2 Esdr 2:14 Take heaven and earth to witness; for I have broken the evil in pieces, and created the good: for I live, saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:15 Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them up with gladness, make their feet as fast as a pillar: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:16 And those that be dead will I raise up again from their places, and bring them out of the graves: for I have known my name in Israel.
2 Esdr 2:17 Fear not, thou mother of the children: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:18 For thy help will I send my servants Esau and Jeremy, after whose counsel I have sanctified and prepared for thee twelve trees laden with divers fruits,
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And as many fountains flowing with milk and honey, and seven mighty mountains, whereupon there grow roses and lilies, whereby I will fill thy children with joy.
2 Esdr 2:20 Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked,
2 Esdr 2:21 Heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into the sight of my clearness.
2 Esdr 2:22 Keep the old and young within thy walls.
2 Esdr 2:23 Wheresoever thou findest the dead, take them and bury them, and I will give thee the first place in my resurrection.
2 Esdr 2:24 Abide still, O my people, and take thy rest, for thy quietness still come.
2 Esdr 2:25 Nourish thy children, O thou good nurse; stablish their feet.
2 Esdr 2:26 As for the servants whom I have given thee, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among thy number.
2 Esdr 2:27 Be not weary: for when the day of trouble and heaviness cometh, others shall weep and be sorrowful, but thou shalt be merry and have abundance.
2 Esdr 2:28 The heathen shall envy thee, but they shall be able to do nothing against thee, saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:29 My hands shall cover thee, so that thy children shall not see hell.
2 Esdr 2:30 Be joyful, O thou mother, with thy children; for I will deliver thee, saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:31 Remember thy children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the sides of the earth, and shew mercy unto them: for I am merciful, saith the Lord Almighty.
2 Esdr 2:32 Embrace thy children until I come and shew mercy unto them: for my wells run over, and my grace shall not fail.
2 Esdr 2:33 I Esdras received a charge of the Lord upon the mount Oreb, that I should go unto Israel; but when I came unto them, they set me at nought, and despised the commandment of the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:34 And therefore I say unto you, O ye heathen, that hear and understand, look for your Shepherd, he shall give you everlasting rest; for he is nigh at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.
2 Esdr 2:35 Be ready to the reward of the kingdom, for the everlasting light shall shine upon you for evermore.
2 Esdr 2:36 Flee the shadow of this world, receive the joyfulness of your glory: I testify my Saviour openly.
2 Esdr 2:37 O receive the gift that is given you, and be glad, giving thanks unto him that hath led you to the heavenly kingdom.
2 Esdr 2:38 Arise up and stand, behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord;
2 Esdr 2:39 Which are departed from the shadow of the world, and have received glorious garments of the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:40 Take thy number, O Sion, and shut up those of thine that are clothed in white, which have fulfilled the law of the Lord.
2 Esdr 2:41 The number of thy children, whom thou longedst for, is fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that thy people, which have been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.
2 Esdr 2:42 I Esdras saw upon the mount Sion a great people, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.
2 Esdr 2:43 And in the midst of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns, and was more exalted; which I marvelled at greatly.
2 Esdr 2:44 So I asked the angel, and said, Sir, what are these?
2 Esdr 2:45 He answered and said unto me, These be they that have put off the mortal clothing, and put on the immortal, and have confessed the name of God: now are they crowned, and receive palms.
2 Esdr 2:46 Then said I unto the angel, What young person is it that crowneth them, and giveth them palms in their hands?
2 Esdr 2:47 So he answered and said unto me, It is the Son of God, whom they have confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend them that stood so stiffly for the name of the Lord.
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Then the angel said unto me, Go thy way, and tell my people what manner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God, thou hast seen.
2 Esdr 3:1 In the thirtieth year after the ruin of the city I was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over my heart:
2 Esdr 3:2 For I saw the desolation of Sion, and the wealth of them that dwelt at Babylon.
2 Esdr 3:3 And my spirit was sore moved, so that I began to speak words full of fear to the most High, and said,
2 Esdr 3:4 O Lord, who bearest rule, thou spakest at the beginning, when thou didst plant the earth, and that thyself alone, and commandedst the people,
2 Esdr 3:5 And gavest a body unto Adam without soul, which was the workmanship of thine hands, and didst breathe into him the breath of life, and he was made living before thee.
2 Esdr 3:6 And thou leadest him into paradise, which thy right hand had planted, before ever the earth came forward.
2 Esdr 3:7 And unto him thou gavest commandment to love thy way: which he transgressed, and immediately thou appointedst death in him and in his generations, of whom came nations, tribes, people, and kindreds, out of number.
2 Esdr 3:8 And every people walked after their own will, and did wonderful things before thee, and despised thy commandments.
2 Esdr 3:9 And again in process of time thou broughtest the flood upon those that dwelt in the world, and destroyedst them.
2 Esdr 3:10 And it came to pass in every of them, that as death was to Adam, so was the flood to these.
2 Esdr 3:11 Nevertheless one of them thou leftest, namely, Noah with his household, of whom came all righteous men.
2 Esdr 3:12 And it happened, that when they that dwelt upon the earth began to multiply, and had gotten them many children, and were a great people, they began again to be more ungodly than the first.
2 Esdr 3:13 Now when they lived so wickedly before thee, thou didst choose thee a man from among them, whose name was Abraham.
2 Esdr 3:14 Him thou lovedst, and unto him only thou shewedst thy will:
2 Esdr 3:15 And madest an everlasting covenant with him, promising him that thou wouldest never forsake his seed.
2 Esdr 3:16 And unto him thou gavest Isaac, and unto Isaac also thou gavest Jacob and Esau. As for Jacob, thou didst choose him to thee, and put by Esau: and so Jacob became a great multitude.
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And it came to pass, that when thou leadest his seed out of Egypt, thou broughtest them up to the mount Sinai.
2 Esdr 3:18 And bowing the heavens, thou didst set fast the earth, movedst the whole world, and madest the depths to tremble, and troubledst the men of that age.
2 Esdr 3:19 And thy