2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 124
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CHAPTER 10:
1 He comforts the woman in the
field. 17 She vanishes away, and a
city appears in her place. 40 The
Angel declares these visions in the
field.
The Vision of a Weeping
Woman Continued
Or country
men citizens.
Or,
speeches.
1 And it so came to pass, that
when my son was entered into
his wedding chamber, he fell
down and died.
2 Then we all overthrew the
lights, and all my neighbors
rose up to comfort me, so I
took my rest unto the second
day at night.
3 And it came to pass when
they had all left off to comfort
me, to the end I might be
quiet: then I rose up by night
and fled, and came hither into
this field, as you see.
4 And I do now purpose not
to return into the city, but
here to stay, and neither to eat
nor drink, but continually to
mourn, and to fast until I die.
5 Then I left the meditations
wherein I was, and spoke to
her in anger, saying,
6 You foolish woman
above all other, see you not
our mourning, and what
happened unto us?
7 How that Sion our mother
is full of all heaviness, and
T H E
V I S I O N S
much humbled, mourning
very sore?
8 And now seeing we all
mourn, and are sad, for we
are all in heaviness, are you
grieved for one son?
9 For ask the earth, and she
shall tell you, that it is she,
which ought to mourn, for
the fall of so many that grow
upon her.
10 For out of her came all at
the first, and out of her shall
all others come: and behold
they walk almost all into
destruction, and a multitude Or,
of them is utterly rooted out. abolished.
11 Who then should make
more mourning than she that
has lost so great a multitude,
and not you which are sorry
but for one?
12 But if you say unto me,
My lamentation is not like the
earth’s, because I have lost the
fruit of my womb, which I
brought forth with pains, and But the earth
after the
manner of
bare with sorrows.
the earth:
13 But the earth not so: for whereinto
the present
the multitude present in it, multitude is
again,
according to the course of the gone
as it came
out.
earth, is gone, as it came.
14 Then I say unto you, Like
as you have brought forth with
labor: even so the earth also
has given her fruit, namely
man, ever since the beginning,
unto him that made her.
15 Now therefore keep your
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