2 Esdras 16:46
“For strangers shall reape their fruits, and spoile their goods, ouerthrowe their houses; and take their children captiues, for in captiuity and famine shall they get children.”
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2 Esdras 16:46 Context
44They that marry, as they that shall get no children: and they that marrie not, as the widowers. 45And therefore they that labour, labour in vaine. 46For strangers shall reape their fruits, and spoile their goods, ouerthrowe their houses; and take their children captiues, for in captiuity and famine shall they get children. 47And they that occupy their merchandize with robbery, the more they decke their citties, their houses, their possessions and their owne persons: 48The more will I be angry with them for their sinne, saith the Lord.
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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.
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