lf, so is his husbandry also: for it was the time of the
world.

2 Esdr 9:18
And now when I prepared the world, which was not yet made,
even for them to dwell in that now live, no man spake against
me.

2 Esdr 9:19
For then every one obeyed: but now the manners of them which
are created in this world that is made are corrupted by a
perpetual seed, and by a law which is unsearchable rid
themselves.

2 Esdr 9:20
So I considered the world, and, behold, there was peril
because of the devices that were come into it.

2 Esdr 9:21
And I saw, and spared it greatly, and have kept me a grape of
the cluster, and a plant of a great people.

2 Esdr 9:22
Let the multitude perish then, which was born in vain; and
let my grape be kept, and my plant; for with great labour have I
made it perfect.

2 Esdr 9:23
Nevertheless, if thou wilt cease yet seven days more, (but
thou shalt not fast in them,

2 Esdr 9:24
But go into a field of flowers, where no house is builded,
and eat only the flowers of the field; taste no flesh, drink no
wine, but eat flowers only;)

2 Esdr 9:25
And pray unto the Highest continually, then will I come and
talk with thee.

2 Esdr 9:26
So I went my way into the field which is called Ardath, like
as he commanded me; and there I sat among the flowers, and did
eat of the herbs of the field, and the meat of the same
satisfied me.

2 Esdr 9:27
After seven days I sat upon the grass, and my heart was vexed
within me, like as before:

2 Esdr 9:28
And I opened my mouth, and began to talk before the most
High, and said,

2 Esdr 9:29
O Lord, thou that shewest thyself unto us, thou wast shewed
unto our fathers in the wilderness, in a place where no man
treadeth, in a barren place, when they came out of Egypt.

2 Esdr 9:30
And thou spakest saying, Hear me, O Israel; and mark my
words, thou seed of Jacob.

2 Esdr 9:31
For, behold, I sow my law in you, and it shall bring fruit in
you, and ye shall be honoured in it for ever.

2 Esdr 9:32
But our fathers, which received the law, kept it not, and
observed not thy ordinances: and though the fruit of thy law did
not perish, neither could it, for it was thine;

2 Esdr 9:33
Yet they that received it perished, because they kept not the
thing that was sown in them.

2 Esdr 9:34
And, lo, it is a custom, when the ground hath received seed,
or the sea a ship, or any vessel meat or drink, that, that being
perished wherein it was sown or cast into,