2Esdras:15

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* Behold , speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy , which I will put in thy mouth , saith the Lord : * And cause them to be written in paper : for they are faithful and true . * Fear not the imaginations against thee , let not the incredulity of them trouble thee , that speak against thee . * For all the unfaithful shall die in their unfaithfulness . * Behold , saith the Lord , I will bring plagues upon the world ; the sword , famine , death , and destruction . * For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth , and their hurtful works are fulfilled . * Therefore saith the Lord , * I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness , which they profanely commit , neither will I suffer them in those things , in which they wickedly exercise themselves : behold , the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me , and the souls of the just complain continually . * And therefore , saith the Lord , I will surely avenge them , and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them . * Behold , my people is led as a flock to the slaughter : I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt : * But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm , and smite Egypt with plagues , as before , and will destroy all the land thereof . * Egypt shall mourn , and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it . * They that till the ground shall mourn : for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail , and with a fearful constellation . * Woe to the world and them that dwell therein ! * For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh , and one people shall stand up and fight against another , and swords in their hands . * For there shall be sedition among men , and invading one another ; they shall not regard their kings nor princes , and the course of their actions shall stand in their power . * A man shall desire to go into a city , and shall not be able . * For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled , the houses shall be destroyed , and men shall be afraid . * A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour , but shall destroy their houses with the sword , and spoil their goods , because of the lack of bread , and for great tribulation . * Behold , saith God , I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me , which are from the rising of the sun , from the south , from the east , and Libanus ; to turn themselves one against another , and repay the things that they have done to them . * Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen , so will I do also , and recompense in their bosom . Thus saith the Lord God ; * My right hand shall not spare the sinners , and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth . * The fire is gone forth from his wrath , and hath consumed the foundations of the earth , and the sinners , like the straw that is kindled . * Woe to them that sin , and keep not my commandments ! saith the Lord . * I will not spare them : go your way , ye children , from the power , defile not my sanctuary . * For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him , and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction . * For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them : for God shall not deliver you , because ye have sinned against him . * Behold an horrible vision , and the appearance thereof from the east : * Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots , and the multitude of them shall be carried as the wind upon earth , that all they which hear them may fear and tremble . * Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood , and with great power shall they come , and join battle with them , and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians . * And then shall the dragons have the upper hand , remembering their nature ; and if they shall turn themselves , conspiring together in great power to persecute them , * Then these shall be troubled bled , and keep silence through their power , and shall flee . * And from the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege them , and consume some of them , and in their host shall be fear and dread , and strife among their kings . * Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south , and they are very horrible to look upon , full of wrath and storm . * They shall smite one upon another , and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth , even their own star ; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly , * And dung of men unto the camel 's hough . * And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon earth : and they that see the wrath shall be afraid , and trembling shall come upon them . * And then shall there come great storms from the south , and from the north , and another part from the west . * And strong winds shall arise from the east , and shall open it ; and the cloud which he raised up in wrath , and the star stirred to cause fear toward the east and west wind , shall be destroyed . * The great and mighty clouds shall be puffed up full of wrath , and the star , that they may make all the earth afraid , and them that dwell therein ; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent place an horrible star , * Fire , and hail , and flying swords , and many waters , that all fields may be full , and all rivers , with the abundance of great waters . * And they shall break down the cities and walls , mountains and hills , trees of the wood , and grass of the meadows , and their corn . * And they shall go stedfastly unto Babylon , and make her afraid . * They shall come to her , and besiege her , the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her : then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven , and all they that be about her shall bewail her . * And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear . * And thou , Asia , that art partaker of the hope of Babylon , and art the glory of her person : * Woe be unto thee , thou wretch , because thou hast made thyself like unto her ; and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom , that they might please and glory in thy lovers , which have always desired to commit whoredom with thee . * Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions : therefore saith God , * I will send plagues upon thee ; widowhood , poverty , famine , sword , and pestilence , to waste thy houses with destruction and death . * And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower , the heat shall arise that is sent over thee . * Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes , and as one chastised with wounds , so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee . * Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee , saith the Lord , * If thou hadst not always slain my chosen , exalting the stroke of thine hands , and saying over their dead , when thou wast drunken , * Set forth the beauty of thy countenance ? * The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom , therefore shalt thou receive recompence . * Like as thou hast done unto my chosen , saith the Lord , even so shall God do unto thee , and shall deliver thee into mischief * Thy children shall die of hunger , and thou shalt fall through the sword : thy cities shall be broken down , and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field . * They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger , and eat their own flesh , and drink their own blood , for very hunger of bread , and thirst of water . * Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea , and receive plagues again . * And in the passage they shall rush on the idle city , and shall destroy some portion of thy land , and consume part of thy glory , and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed . * And thou shalt be cast down by them as stubble , and they shall be unto thee as fire ; * And shall consume thee , and thy cities , thy land , and thy mountains ; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire . * Thy children shall they carry away captive , and , look , what thou hast , they shall spoil it , and mar the beauty of thy face .

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