ke their children captives, for in
captivity and famine shall they get children.

2 Esdr 16:47
And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more
they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and
their own persons:

2 Esdr 16:48
The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the
Lord.

2 Esdr 16:49
Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:

2 Esdr 16:50
So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh
herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that
shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon
earth.

2 Esdr 16:51
And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works
thereof.

2 Esdr 16:52
For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the
earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.

2 Esdr 16:53
Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God shall
burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord
God and his glory, I have not sinned.

2 Esdr 16:54
Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their
imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:

2 Esdr 16:55
Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was
made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created.

2 Esdr 16:56
In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of
them.

2 Esdr 16:57
He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath
measured the sea, and what it containeth.

2 Esdr 16:58
He hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his
word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters.

2 Esdr 16:59
He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters
hath he founded it.

2 Esdr 16:60
In the desert hath he made springs of water, and pools upon
the tops of the mountains, that the floods might pour down from
the high rocks to water the earth.

2 Esdr 16:61
He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and
gave him breath, life, and understanding.

2 Esdr 16:62
Yea and the Spirit of Almighty God, which made all things,
and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth,

2 Esdr 16:63
Surely he knoweth your inventions, and what ye think in your
hearts, even them that sin, and would hide their sin.

2 Esdr 16:64
Therefore hath the Lord exactly searched out all your works,
and he will put you all to shame.

2 Esdr 16:65
And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed
before men, and your own sins shall be your accusers in tha