2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 154
1 5 : V E G E A N C E
O N
T H E
W I C K E D
under her, shall do service so proceeded against you, says
unto them that have put her Yahuah,
in fear.
53 If you had not always slain
my chosen, exalting the stroke
Judgment on Asia
of your hands, and saying
over their dead, when you
Lat. death.
46 And you Asia that are were drunken,
partaker of the hope of 54 Set forth the beauty of
Or, like unto Babylon, and are the glory of your countenance.
Babylon.
her person:
55 The reward of your
47 Woe be unto you, you whoredom shall be in your
wretch, because you have bosom, therefore shall you
made yourself like unto receive recompense.
her, and have decked your 56 Like as you have done
daughters in whoredom, that unto my chosen, says Yahuah;
they might please and glory in even so shall Elohim do unto
your lovers, which have always you, and shall deliver you into
desired to commit whoredom mischief.
with you.
57 Your children shall die
48 You have followed her, of hunger, and you shall fall
that is hated in all her works through the sword: your cities
and inventions: therefore says shall be broken down, and
Elohim,
all yours shall perish with the
49 I will send plagues upon sword in the field.
you: widowhood, poverty, 58 They that be in the
famine, sword, and pestilence, mountains shall die of hunger,
to waste your houses with and eat their own flesh, and
destruction and death.
drink their own blood, for very
50 And the glory of the power hunger of bread, and thirst of
shall be dried up as flour, when water.
the heat shall arise that is sent 59 You, as unhappy, shall
over you.
come through the Sea, and
51 You shall be weakened as a receive plagues again.
poor woman with stripes, and 60 And in the passage, they
as one chastised with wounds, shall rush on the idle city, and
so that the mighty and lovers shall destroy some portion of
shall not be able to receive your land, and consume part
you.
of your glory, and shall return
52 Would I with jealousy have to Babylon that was destroyed.
152
