2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 134
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the Highest has kept for them,
and for their wickedness unto
the end: he shall reprove them,
and shall upbraid them with
their cruelty.
33 For he shall set them before
him alive in judgment, and
shall rebuke them and correct
them.
34 For the rest of my
people shall he deliver with
mercy, those that have been
preserved upon my borders,
and he shall make them joyful
until the coming of the day
of judgment, whereof I have
spoken unto you from the
Cf. Gn. 3:15.
beginning.
35 This is the dream that
you saw, and these are the
interpretations.
36 You only have been meet
to know this secret of the
Highest.
37 Therefore write all these
Cf. Dan. things that you have seen,
12:4.
in a book, and hide them.
38 And teach them to the wise
of the people, whose hearts
you know may comprehend,
and keep these secrets.
39 But you wait here yet
seven days more, that it may
be shown you whatsoever it
pleases the Highest to declare
unto you: And with that he
went his way.
The People Come to Ezra
D E S T R O Y E D
40 And it came to pass when
all the people saw that the
seven days were past, and
I not come again into the
city, they gathered them all
together, from the least unto
the greatest, and came unto
me, and said,
41 What have we offended
you? And what evil have we
done against you, that you
forsake us, and sit here in this
place?
42 For of all the prophets you
only are left us, as a cluster of
the vintage, and as a candle in
a dark place, and as a haven
or ship preserved from the
Or, people.
tempest:
43 Are not the evils which are
come to us, sufficient?
44 If you shall forsake us, how
much better had it been for us,
if we also had been burnt in
the midst of Sion.
45 For we are not better than
they that died there. And they
wept with a loud voice: then I
answered them, and said,
46 Be of good comfort, O
Israel, and be not heavy you
house of Yacob.
47 For the Highest has you
in remembrance, and the
mighty has not forgotten you
in temptation.
48 As for me, I have not
forsaken you, neither am I
departed from you: but am
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