2 ESDRAS: The Hidden Book of Prophecy With 1st Esdras - Book - Page 97
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punish them with your own scattered abroad, make me
hands.
the flowers green again that
are withered.
Response to Ezra’s
37 Open me the places that
Complaints
are closed, and bring me forth
the winds that in them are
31 Now when I had spoken shut up, show me the image of
these words, the Angel that a voice: and then I will declare
came to me the night before, to you the thing that you labor
was sent unto me,
to know.
32 And said unto me, Hear 38 And I said, O Yahuah, that
me, and I will instruct you, bearest rule, who may know
hearken to the thing that I say, these things, but he that has
and I shall tell you more.
not his dwelling with men?
33 And I said, Speak on, my 39 As for me, I am unwise:
lord: then he said unto me, how may I then speak of these
you are sore troubled in mind things whereof you ask me?
for Israel’s sake: you love that 40 Then he said unto me, Like
people better than he that as you can do none of these
made them?
things that I have spoken of,
34 And I said, No lord, but of even so can you not find out
much grief have I spoken: For my judgment, or in the end
my heart pains me every hour, the love that I have promised
while I labor to comprehend unto my people.
the way of the Most High,
and to seek out part of his Why Successive Generations
judgment.
Have Been Created
35 And he said unto me, You
can not: and I said, wherefore 41 And I said, behold, O
lord? whereunto was I born Yahuah, yet are you nigh unto
then? or why was not my them that be reserved til the
mother’s womb then my end; and what shall they do
grave, that I might not have that have been before me, or
seen the travel of Yacob, and we (that be now) or they that
the wearisome toil of the stock shall come after us?
of Israel?
42 And he said unto me, I will
36 And he said unto me, liken my judgment unto a ring:
Number me the things that like as there is no slackness of
are not yet come, gather me the last, even so there is no
together the drops that are swiftness of the first.
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