2 Esdras 16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

2 Esdras 16Further Denunciations

1 and wail for your children, and lament for them, for your destruction is at hand.

3The sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back?

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7 by those who search carefully through the vineyard,

32 and its roads and all its paths shall bring forth thorns, because no sheep will go along them.

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38The calamities draw near and are not delayed.

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48Those who conduct business do so only to have it plundered; the more they adorn their cities, their houses and possessions, and their persons,

49the more angry I will be with them for their sins, says the Lord.

50Just as a respectable and virtuous woman abhors a prostitute,

51 for coals of fire will burn on the head of everyone who says, “I have not sinned before God and his glory.”

55 certainly knows everything that people do; he knows their imaginations and their thoughts and their hearts.

56 and by his word he has suspended the earth over the water.

60 of Almighty God, who surely made all things and searches out hidden things in hidden places.

64 is the judge; fear him! Cease from your sins and forget your iniquities, never to commit them again, so God will lead you forth and deliver you from all tribulation.

Impending Persecution of God’s People

69 and in neighboring cities there shall be a great uprising against those who fear the Lord.

72They shall be like maniacs, sparing no one, but plundering and destroying those who continue to fear the Lord.

73For they shall destroy and plunder their goods and drive them out of house and home.

74 is your guide.

77 overwhelmed with thorns, so that no one can pass through. It is shut off and given up to be consumed by fire.

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