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2 Esdras 2

  1. 2 Esdras 2:1 Thus saith the Lord, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gaue them my Commaundements by my seruants the prophets, whom they would not heare, but despised my counsailes.
  2. 2 Esdras 2:2 The mother that bare them, saith vnto them, Goe your way ye children, for I am a widow, and forsaken.
  3. 2 Esdras 2:3 I brought you vp with gladnesse, but with sorrow and heauinesse haue I lost you: for yee haue sinned before the Lord your God, and done that thing that is euil before him.
  4. 2 Esdras 2:4 But what shall I now doe vnto you? I am a widow and forsaken: goe your way, O my children, and aske mercy of the Lord.
  5. 2 Esdras 2:5 As for mee, O father, I call vpon thee for a witnesse ouer the mother of these children, which would not keepe my Couenant,
  6. 2 Esdras 2:6 That thou bring them to confusion, and their mother to a spoile, that there may be no off spring of them.
  7. 2 Esdras 2:7 Let them bee scattered abroad among the heathen, let their names bee put out of the earth: for they haue despised my Couenant.
  8. 2 Esdras 2:8 Woe be vnto thee Assur, thou that hidest the vnrighteous in thee, O thou wicked people, remember what I did vnto Sodome and Gomorrhe.
  9. 2 Esdras 2:9 Whose land lieth in clods of pitch and heapes of ashes: euen so also wil I doe vnto them that heare me not, saith the Almightie Lord.
  10. 2 Esdras 2:10 Thus saith the Lord vnto Esdras, Tell my people that I will giue them the kingdome of Hierusalem, which I would haue giuen vnto Israel.
  11. 2 Esdras 2:11 Their glory also wil I take vnto mee, and giue these the euerlasting Tabernacles, which I had prepared for them.
  12. 2 Esdras 2:12 They shall haue the tree of Life for an oyntment of sweet sauour, they shall nether labour, nor be weary.
  13. 2 Esdras 2:13 Goe and yee shall receiue: pray for few dayes vnto you, that they may be shortned: the kingdome is already prepared for you: Watch.
  14. 2 Esdras 2:14 Take heauen and earth to witnesse; for I haue broken the euill in pieces, and created the good; for I liue, saith the Lord.
  15. 2 Esdras 2:15 Mother, embrace thy children, and bring them vp with gladnesse, make their feet as fast as a pillar: for I haue chosen thee, saith the Lord.
  16. 2 Esdras 2:16 And those that be dead wil I raise vp againe from their places, and bring them out of the graues: for I haue knowen my Name in Israel.
  17. 2 Esdras 2:17 Feare not thou mother of the children: for I haue chosen thee, saith the Lord.
  18. 2 Esdras 2:18 For thy helpe I will send my seruants Esay and Ieremie, after whose counsaile I haue sanctified and prepared for thee twelue trees, laden with diuers fruits;
  19. 2 Esdras 2:19 And as many fountaines flowing with milke and hony: and seuen mightie mountaines, whereupon there grow roses and lillies, whereby I will fill thy children with ioy.
  20. 2 Esdras 2:20 Doe right to the widow, iudge for the fatherlesse, giue to the poore, defend the orphane, clothe the naked,
  21. 2 Esdras 2:21 Heale the broken and the weake, laugh not a lame man to scorne, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into the sight of my clearenesse.
  22. 2 Esdras 2:22 Keepe the olde and yong within thy walles.
  23. 2 Esdras 2:23 Wheresouer thou findest the dead, take them and bury them, and I will giue thee the first place in my resurrection.
  24. 2 Esdras 2:24 Abide still, O my people, and take thy rest, for thy quietnesse shall come.
  25. 2 Esdras 2:25 Nourish thy children, O thou good nource, stablish their feete.
  26. 2 Esdras 2:26 As for the seruants whom I haue giuen thee, there shall not one of them perish; for I will require them from among thy number.
  27. 2 Esdras 2:27 Be not weary, for when the day of trouble and heauinesse commeth, others shal weepe and be sorrowfull, but thou shalt be merry, and haue abundance.
  28. 2 Esdras 2:28 The heathen shall enuie thee, but they shall be able to doe nothing against thee, sayth the Lord.
  29. 2 Esdras 2:29 My hands shal couer thee, so that thy children shall not see hell.
  30. 2 Esdras 2:30 Be ioyfull, O thou mother, with thy children, for I will deliuer thee, sayth the Lord.
  31. 2 Esdras 2:31 Remember thy children that sleep, for I shall bring them out of the sides of the earth, and shew mercy vnto them: for I am mercifull, sayth the Lord Almightie.
  32. 2 Esdras 2:32 Embrace thy children vntill I come and shew mercy vnto them: for my welles runne ouer, and my grace shall not faile.
  33. 2 Esdras 2:33 I Esdras receiued a charge of the Lord vpon the mount Oreb, that I should goe vnto Israel; but when I came vnto them, they set me at nought, and despised the commandement of the Lord.
  34. 2 Esdras 2:34 And therefore I say vnto you, O yee heathen, that heare and vnderstand, Looke for your shepheard, hee shall giue you euerlasting rest; for he is nigh at hand, that shall come in the end of the world.
  35. 2 Esdras 2:35 Be ready to the reward of the kingdome, for the euerlasting light shal shine vpon you for euermore.
  36. 2 Esdras 2:36 Flee the shadow of this world, receiue the ioyfulnesse of your glory: I testifie my Sauiour openly.
  37. 2 Esdras 2:37 O receiue the gift that is giuen you, and be glad, giuing thankes vnto him that hath called you to the heauenly kingdome.
  38. 2 Esdras 2:38 Arise vp and stand, behold the number of those that be sealed in the feast of the Lord:
  39. 2 Esdras 2:39 Which are departed from the shadow of the world, and haue receiued glorious garments of the Lord.
  40. 2 Esdras 2:40 Take thy number, O Sion, and shut vp those of thine that are clothed in white, which haue fulfilled the Law of the Lord.
  41. 2 Esdras 2:41 The number of thy children whom thou longedst for, is fulfilled: beseech the power of the Lord, that thy people which haue been called from the beginning, may be hallowed.
  42. 2 Esdras 2:42 I Esdras saw vpon the mount Sion a great people, whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs.
  43. 2 Esdras 2:43 And in the middest of them there was a young man of a high stature, taller then all the rest, and vpon euery one of their heads he set crownes, and was more exalted, which I marueiled at greatly.
  44. 2 Esdras 2:44 So I asked the Angel, and said, Sir, what are these?
  45. 2 Esdras 2:45 Hee answered, and said vnto me, These be they that haue put off the mortall clothing, and put on the immortall, and haue confessed the Name of God: now are they crowned, and receiue palmes.
  46. 2 Esdras 2:46 Then sayd I vnto the Angel, What yong person is it that crowneth them, and giueth them palmes in their handes?
  47. 2 Esdras 2:47 So hee answered, and said vnto me, It is the sonne of God, whom they haue confessed in the world. Then began I greatly to commend them, that stood so stiffely for the Name of the Lord.
  48. 2 Esdras 2:48 Then the Angel sayd vnto me, Goe thy way, and tell my people what maner of things, and how great wonders of the Lord thy God thou hast seene.