2 Esdras 7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1And when I had made an end of speaking these words, there was sent unto me broad and vast.

4But the entrance thereof shall be set in a narrow place so as to be like a river;

5Whoso then should desire to go into the sea to look upon it, or to rule it, have suffered the strait things, and yet shall not see the wide.

19And he said unto me, life.

30And the world shall be turned into , and

36 And pit of torment shall appear, and over against it shall be the place of rest: hell shall be shewed, shall he speak unto them in the day of judgement:

39 winter, neither frost, nor cold, nor hail, nor rain, nor dew,

42 Neither noon, nor night, nor dawn, neither shining, nor brightness, nor light, wilt thou set for thee over against them according to their number things of lead and clay?

53 And I said, Lord, how shall this be?

54 And he said unto me, Not only this, Weigh within thyself the things that thou hast thought, for he that hath what is hard to get rejoiceth over him that hath what is plentiful.

60 So also is the judgement which I have promised: defiled with iniquities, and are full of sins and laden with offences:

69 And God,

80 These spirits shall not enter how forthwith some of them shall pass into torment.

87 The seventh way, which is more grievous than all the aforesaid ways, because they shall pine away in confusion and be consumed with shame, and shall be withered up by fears, seeing the glory of the Most High before whom they have sinned whilst living, and before whom they shall be judged in the last times.

88 Now this is the order of those who have kept the ways of the Most High, when they shall be separated from the corruptible that they dwelt therein they painfully served the Most High, and painfulness from which they have been delivered, and the large room which they shall receive with joy and immortality.

97 The sixth order, when it is shewed unto them is announced unto them, and aforesaid are the ways of torture which they that would not give heed shall suffer from henceforth.

100 And I answered and said, Shall time therefore be given unto the souls after they are separated from the bodies, that they may see that whereof thou hast spoken unto me?

101 And he said, Their freedom shall be for seven days, that for seven days they may see the things whereof thou hast been told, and afterwards they shall be gathered together friends for them that are most dear.

104 And he answered me, and said, Since thou hast found favour in my sight, a day of friend him that is most dear, that in his stead he may be sick, or sleep, or eat, or be healed:

105 in that day, neither shall one lay a burden on another, in the days of Saul; and not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.

43 But the day of judgement shall be the end of this time, and the beginning condition of offences,

70 There would peradventure be very few left in an innumerable multitude.