2 Esdras 4:39
“And for our sakes peraduenture it is that the floores of the righteous are not filled, because of the sinnes of them that dwell vpon the earth.”
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2 Esdras 4:39 Context
37By measure hath hee measured the times, and by number hath he numbred the times; and he doeth not mooue nor stirre them, vntill the said measure be fulfilled. 38Then answered I, and said, O Lord that bearest rule, euen we all are full of impietie. 39And for our sakes peraduenture it is that the floores of the righteous are not filled, because of the sinnes of them that dwell vpon the earth. 40So he answered me, and said, Go thy way to a wman with childe, and aske of her, when she hath fulfilled her nine moneths, if her wombe may keepe the birth any longer within her? 41Then said I, No Lord, that can she not. And he said vnto mee, In the graue, the chambers of soules are like the wombe of a woman:
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And for our sakes peradventure it is that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of them that dwell upon the earth.
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