II. ESDRAS. Chapter 15

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CHAP. XV.

1 This prophecie is certaine. 5 God will take vengeance vpon the wicked, 12 Vpon Egypt, 28 An horrible vision. 43 Babylon and Asia are threatned.

¹Behold, speake thou in the eares of my people the words of prophesie, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord.

²And cause them to be written in paper: for they are faithfull and true.

³Feare not the imaginations against thee, let not the incredulity of them trouble thee, that speake against thee.

⁴For all the vnfaithfull shall die in their vnfaithfulnesse.

⁵Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues vpon the world; the sword, famine, death, and destruction.

⁶For wickednesse hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtfull workes are fulfilled.

⁷Therefore saith the Lord,

⁸I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickednesse, which they prophanely commit, neither wil I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselues: behold, the innocent & righteous blood cryeth vnto me, and the soules of the iust complaine continually.⁸

⁹And therefore saith the Lord, I wil surely auenge them, and receiue vnto me, all the innocent blood from among them.

¹⁰Beholde, my people is ledde as a flocke to the slaughter: I wil not suffer them now to dwel in the land of Egypt.

¹¹But I will bring them with a mighty hand, and a stretched out arme, and smite Egypt with plagues as before, and wil destroy al the land thereof.

¹²Egypt shal mourne, and the foundation of it shall bee smitten with the plague and punishment, that God shall bring vpon it.

¹³They that till the ground shall mourne: for their seedes shall faile, through the blasting, and haile, and with a fearefull constellation.

¹⁴Woe to the world, and them that dwell therein.

¹⁵For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand vp to fight against another, and swords in their hands.

¹⁶For there shalbe sedition among men, and inuading one another, they shal not regard their kings, nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.

¹⁷A man shall desire to goe into a citie, and shall not be able.

¹⁸For because of their pride, the cities shalbe troubled, the houses shalbe destroyed, and men shalbe afraid.

¹⁹A man shall haue no pitie vpon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoile their goods, because of the lacke of bread, and for great tribulation.

²⁰Behold, saith God, I will call together all the Kings of the earth to reuerence me, which are from the rising of the Sunne, from the South, from the East, and Libanus: to turne themselues one against another, and repay the things that they haue done to them.

²¹Like as they doe yet this day vnto my chosen, so will I doe also and recompense in their bosome, Thus saith the Lord God;

²²My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shal not cease ouer them, that shed innocent blood vpon earth.

²³The fire is gone foorth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners like the straw that is kindled.

²⁴Wo to them that sinne and keepe not my cōmandements, saith the Lord.

²⁵I will not spare them: goe your way ye children from the power, defile not my Sanctuary:

²⁶For the Lord knoweth all them that sinne against him, and therefore deliuereth he them vnto death and destruction.

²⁷For now are the plagues come vpon the whole earth, and ye shall remaine in them, for God shal not deliuer you, because ye haue sinned against him.

²⁸Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the East.

²⁹Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many charets, and the multitude of them shalbe caried as the winde vpon earth, that all they which heare them, may feare and tremble.

³⁰Also the Carmanians raging in wrath, shall go forth as the wilde bores of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and ioyne battell with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.

³¹And then shall the dragons haue the vpper hand, remembring their nature, and if they shall turne themselues, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,

³²Then these shalbe troubled, and keepe silence through their power, and shall flee.

³³And from the land of the Assyrians, shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be feare, and dread and strife among their kings.³³

³⁴Behold clouds from the East, and from the North, vnto the South, and they are very horrible to looke vpon; full of wrath and storme.

³⁵They shall smite one vpon another, & they shall smite downe a great multitude of starres vpon the earth, euen their owne starre; and blood shalbe from the sword vnto the belly.

³⁶And doung of men vnto the camels hough.³⁶

³⁷And there shalbe great fearefulnesse and trembling vpon earth: and they that see the wrath, shall be afraid, and trembling shall come vpon them.

³⁸And then shall there come great stormes, from the South, and from the North, & another part from the West.

³⁹And strong winds shal arise from the East, and shall open it, and the cloud which hee raised vp in wrath, and the starre stirred to cause feare toward the East and West winde, shalbe destroyed.

⁴⁰The great and mightie cloudes shall be lifted vp full of wrath, and the starre, that they may make all the earth afraid, and them that dwel therein, and they shall powre out ouer euery high and eminent place, an horrible starre.

⁴¹Fire and haile, and fleeing swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all riuers with the abundance of great waters.

⁴²And they shal breake downe the cities, and walls, mountaines and hils, trees of the wood, and grasse of the medowes, and their corne.

⁴³And they shal goe stedfastly vnto Babylon, and make her afraid.⁴³

⁴⁴They shall come to her, and besiege her, the starre and all wrath shall they powre out vpon her, then shall the dust and smoke goe vp vnto the heauen: and all they that be about her, shall bewaile her.

⁴⁵And they that remaine vnder her, shall doe seruice vnto them that haue put her in feare.

⁴⁶And thou Asia that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:⁴⁶

⁴⁷Woe be vnto thee thou wretch, because thou hast made thy selfe like vnto her, and hast deckt thy daughters in whoredome, that they might please and glory in thy louers, which haue alway desired to commit whordome with thee.

⁴⁸Thou hast followed her, that is hated in all her works and inuentions: therefore sayth God,

⁴⁹I will send plagues vpon thee: widowhood, pouertie, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.

⁵⁰And the glory of the power shall be dried vp as floure, when the heate shall arise that is sent ouer thee.

⁵¹Thou shalt bee weakened as a poore woman with stripes, and as one chastised with woundes, so that the mightie and louers shall not be able to receiue thee.

⁵²Would I with iealousie haue so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,

⁵³If thou haddest not alway slaine my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, & saying ouer their dead, when thou wast drunken,⁵³

⁵⁴Set foorth the beauty of thy countenance.

⁵⁵The reward of thy whoredome shall be in thy bosome, therefore shalt thou receiue recompense.

⁵⁶Like as thou hast done vnto my chosen, sayth the Lord; euen so shall God doe vnto thee, and shall deliuer thee into mischiefe.

⁵⁷Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shalbe broken downe, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.

⁵⁸They that be in the mountaines shall die of hunger, and eate their owne flesh, and drinke their owne blood, for very hunger of bread, & thirst of water.

⁵⁹Thou, as vnhappy, shalt come through the Sea, and receiue plagues againe.

⁶⁰And in the passage, they shall rush on the idle citie, and shall destroy some portion of thy land, and consume part of thy glory, and shall returne to Babylon that was destroyed.

⁶¹And thou shalt be cast downe by them, as stubble, and they shall be vnto thee as fire,

⁶²And shall consume thee and thy cities, thy land and thy mountaines, all thy woods and thy fruitfull trees shall they burne vp with fire.

⁶³Thy children shall they cary away captiue, and looke what thou hast, they shall spoile it, and marre the beauty of thy face.⁶³

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for 2 Esdras Chapter 15

⁸ Reuel.6. 10. and 19. 2.
³³ Or, against.
³⁶ Or, Pasterne, or litter.
⁴³ Or, destroy.
⁴⁶ Or, like vnto Babylon.
⁵³ Lat. death.
⁶³ Or, blemish.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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