in Egypt, from whence they were delivered:
2 Esdr 14:30 And received the law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
2 Esdr 14:31 Then was the land, even the land of Sion, parted among you by lot: but your fathers, and ye yourselves, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you.
2 Esdr 14:32 And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
2 Esdr 14:33 And now are ye here, and your brethren among you.
2 Esdr 14:34 Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your hearts, ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy.
2 Esdr 14:35 For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
2 Esdr 14:36 Let no man therefore come unto me now, nor seek after me these forty days.
2 Esdr 14:37 So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
2 Esdr 14:38 And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.
2 Esdr 14:39 Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the colour of it was like fire.
2 Esdr 14:40 And I took it, and drank: and when I had drunk of it, my heart uttered understanding, and wisdom grew in my breast, for my spirit strengthened my memory:
2 Esdr 14:41 And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
2 Esdr 14:42 The Highest gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.
2 Esdr 14:43 As for me. I spake in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.
2 Esdr 14:44 In forty days they wrote two hundred and four books.
2 Esdr 14:45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were filled, that the Highest spake, saying, The first that thou hast written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it:
2 Esdr 14:46 But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest deliver them only to such as be wise among the people:
2 Esdr 14:47 For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the stream of knowledge.
2 Esdr 14:48 And I did so.
2 Esdr 15:1 Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:
2 Esdr 15:2 And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithful and true.
2 Esdr 15:3 Fear not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speak against thee.
2 Esdr 15:4 For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness.
2 Esdr 15:5 Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.
2 Esdr 15:6 For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
2 Esdr 15:7 Therefore saith the Lord,
2 Esdr 15:8 I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just complain continually.
2 Esdr 15:9 And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
2 Esdr 15:10 Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
2 Esdr 15:11 But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
2 Esdr 15:12 Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.
2 Esdr 15:13 They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
2 Esdr 15:14 Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
2 Esdr 15:15 For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.
2 Esdr 15:16 For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.
2 Esdr 15:17 A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
2 Esdr 15:18 For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
2 Esdr 15:19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.
2 Esdr 15:20 Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.
2 Esdr 15:21 Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;
2 Esdr 15:22 My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
2 Esdr 15:23 The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.
2 Esdr 15:24 Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 15:25 I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.
2 Esdr 15:26 For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.
2 Esdr 15:27 For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
2 Esdr 15:28 Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:
2 Esdr 15:29 Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of them shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they which hear them may fear and tremble.
2 Esdr 15:30 Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.
2 Esdr 15:31 And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,
2 Esdr 15:32 Then these shall be troubled bled, and keep silence through their power, and shall flee.
2 Esdr 15:33 And from the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and dread, and strife among their kings.
2 Esdr 15:34 Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
2 Esdr 15:35 They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,
2 Esdr 15:36 And dung of men unto the camel's hough.
2 Esdr 15:37 And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon earth: and they that see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall come upon them.
2 Esdr 15:38 And then shall there come great storms from the south, and from