2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 159
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35 Hear now these things, and
understand them, you servants
of Yahuah.
36 Behold the word of
Yahuah, receive it, believe not
the gods of whom Yahuah
spoke.
37 Behold, the plagues draw
near, and are not slack.
38 As when a woman with
child in the ninth month
brings forth her son, within
two or three hours of her
birth great pains compass her
womb, which pains, when the
Cf. Mt. 24:8; child comes forth, they slack
Mk. 13:8
NIV. not a moment,
39 Even so shall not the
plagues be slack to come upon
the earth, and the world shall
mourn, and sorrows shall
come upon it on every side.
40 O my people, Hear my
word: make you ready to the
battle, and in those evils, be
even as pilgrims upon the
earth.
41 He that sells let him be as
he that flees away: and he that
buys, as one that will loose.
42
He
that
occupies
merchandise, as he that had
no profit by it: and he that
builds, as he that shall not
dwell therein.
43 He that sows, as if he
should not reap: so also he that
plants the vineyard, as he that
shall not gather the grapes.
B A T T L E
44 They that marry, as they
that shall get no children: and
they that marry not, as the
widowers.
45 And therefore they that
labor, labor in vain.
46 For strangers shall reap
their fruits, and spoil their
goods, overthrow their houses;
and take their children
captives, for in captivity and
famine shall they get children.
47 And they that occupy their
merchandise with robbery, the
more they deck their cities,
their houses, their possessions
and their own persons:
48 The more will I be angry
with them for their sin, says
Yahuah.
49 Like as an whore envies
a right honest and virtuous
woman:
50 So shall righteousness
have iniquity, when she decks
herself, and shall accuse her,
to her face, when he comes
that shall defend him that
diligently searches out every
sin upon earth.
The Power and Wisdom of
Yahuah
51 And therefore be not like
thereunto, nor to the works
thereof.
52 For yet a little iniquity
shall be taken away out of the
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