tonishment of them that dwell on
the earth.
2 Esdr 13:31
And one shall undertake to fight against another, one city
against another, one place against another, one people against
another, and one realm against another.
2 Esdr 13:32
And the time shall be when these things shall come to pass,
and the signs shall happen which I shewed thee before, and then
shall my Son be declared, whom thou sawest as a man ascending.
2 Esdr 13:33
And when all the people hear his voice, every man shall in
their own land leave the battle they have one against another.
2 Esdr 13:34
And an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as
thou sawest them, willing to come, and to overcome him by
fighting.
2 Esdr 13:35
But he shall stand upon the top of the mount Sion.
2 Esdr 13:36
And Sion shall come, and shall be shewed to all men, being
prepared and builded, like as thou sawest the hill graven
without hands.
2 Esdr 13:37
And this my Son shall rebuke the wicked inventions of those
nations, which for their wicked life are fallen into the
tempest;
2 Esdr 13:38
And shall lay before them their evil thoughts, and the
torments wherewith they shall begin to be tormented, which are
like unto a flame: and he shall destroy them without labour by
the law which is like unto me.
2 Esdr 13:39
And whereas thou sawest that he gathered another peaceable
multitude unto him;
2 Esdr 13:40
Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners
out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom
Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried
them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
2 Esdr 13:41
But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would
leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further
country, where never mankind dwelt,
2 Esdr 13:42
That they might there keep their statutes, which they never
kept in their own land.
2 Esdr 13:43
And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the
river.
2 Esdr 13:44
For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still
the flood, till they were passed over.
2 Esdr 13:45
For through that country there was a great way to go, namely,
of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.
2 Esdr 13:46
Then dwelt they there until the latter time; and now when
they shall begin to come,
2 Esdr 13:47
The Highest shall stay the springs of the stream again, that
they may go through:
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