13:31 And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city against another, one place against another, one people against another, and one realm against another.
2 Esdr 13:32 And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass, and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
2 Esdr 13:33 And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in their own land leave the battle they have one against another.
2 Esdr 13:34 And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by fighting.
2 Esdr 13:35 But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
2 Esdr 13:36 And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven without hands.
2 Esdr 13:37 And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the tempest;
2 Esdr 13:38 And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by the law which is like unto me.
2 Esdr 13:39 And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable multitude unto him;
2 Esdr 13:40 Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
2 Esdr 13:41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
2 Esdr 13:42 That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
2 Esdr 13:43 And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
2 Esdr 13:44 For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
2 Esdr 13:45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
2 Esdr 13:46 Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when they shall begin to come,
2 Esdr 13:47 The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that they may go through: therefore sawest thou the multitude with peace.
2 Esdr 13:48 But those that be left behind of thy people are they that are found within my borders.
2 Esdr 13:49 Now when he destroyeth the multitude of the nations that are gathered together, he shall defend his people that remain.
2 Esdr 13:50 And then shall he shew them great wonders.
2 Esdr 13:51
Then said I, O Lord that bearest rule, shew me this: Wherefore have I seen the man coming up from the midst of the sea?
2 Esdr 13:52 And he said unto me, Like as thou canst neither seek out nor know the things that are in the deep of the sea: even so can no man upon earth see my Son, or those that be with him, but in the day time.
2 Esdr 13:53 This is the interpretation of the dream which thou sawest, and whereby thou only art here lightened.
2 Esdr 13:54 For thou hast forsaken thine own way, and applied thy diligence unto my law, and sought it.
2 Esdr 13:55 Thy life hast thou ordered in wisdom, and hast called understanding thy mother.
2 Esdr 13:56
And therefore have I shewed thee the treasures of the Highest: after other three days I will speak other things unto thee, and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things.
2 Esdr 13:57 Then went I forth into the field, giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time;
2 Esdr 13:58 And because he governeth the same, and such things as fall in their seasons: and there I sat three days.
2 Esdr 14:1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush over against me, and said, Esdras, Esdras.
2 Esdr 14:2 And I said, Here am I, Lord And I stood up upon my feet.
2 Esdr 14:3
Then said he unto me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal myself unto Moses, and talked with him, when my people served in Egypt:
2 Esdr 14:4 And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him up to the mount of where I held him by me a long season,
2 Esdr 14:5 And told him many wondrous things, and shewed him the secrets of the times, and the end; and commanded him, saying,
2 Esdr 14:6 These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
2 Esdr 14:7 And now I say unto thee,
2 Esdr 14:8 That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard:
2 Esdr 14:9 For thou shalt be taken away from all, and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my Son, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
2 Esdr 14:10 For the world hath lost his youth, and the times begin to wax old.
2 Esdr 14:11 For the world is divided into twelve parts, and the ten parts of it are gone already, and half of a tenth part:
2 Esdr 14:12 And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part.
2 Esdr 14:13 Now therefore set thine house in order, and reprove thy people, comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce corruption,
2 Esdr 14:14 Let go from thee mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,
2 Esdr 14:15 And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee, and haste thee to flee from these times.
2 Esdr 14:16 For yet greater evils than those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter.
2 Esdr 14:17 For look how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein.
2 Esdr 14:18 For the time is fled far away, and leasing is hard at hand: for now hasteth the vision to come, which thou hast seen.
2 Esdr 14:19 Then answered I before thee, and said,
2 Esdr 14:20 Behold, Lord, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.
2 Esdr 14:21 For thy law is burnt, therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee, or the work that shall begin.
2 Esdr 14:22 But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in thy law, that men may find thy path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.
2 Esdr 14:23 And he answered me, saying, Go thy way, gather the people together, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days.
2 Esdr 14:24
But look thou prepare thee many box trees, and take with thee Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, these five which are ready to write swiftly;
2 Esdr 14:25 And come hither, and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out, till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write.
2 Esdr 14:26 And when thou hast done, some things shalt thou publish, and some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise: to morrow this hour shalt thou begin to write.
2 Esdr 14:27 Then went I forth, as he commanded, and gathered all the people together, and said,
2 Esdr 14:28 Hear these words, O Israel.
2 Esdr 14:29 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers