2 Esdras 8:17

2 Esdras 8:17 Context

¹⁴If therefore thou shalt destroy him which with so great labour was fashioned, it is an easy thing to be ordained by thy commandment, that the thing which was made might be preserved. ¹⁵Now therefore, Lord, I will speak; touching man in general, thou knowest best; but touching thy people, for whose sake I am sorry; ¹⁶And for thine inheritance, for whose cause I mourn; and for Israel, for whom I am heavy; and for Jacob, for whose sake I am troubled; ¹⁷Therefore will I begin to pray before thee for myself and for them: for I see the falls of us that dwell in the land. ¹⁸But I have heard the swiftness of the judge which is to come. ¹⁹Therefore hear my voice, and understand my words, and I shall speak before thee. This is the beginning of the words of Esdras, before he was taken up: and I said, ²⁰O Lord, thou that dwellest in everlastingness which beholdest from above things in the heaven and in the air;

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