2 Esdras 10 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1And it so came to pass, that when my son was entered into his wedding chamber, he fell down, and died.

2Then we all overthrew the lights, and neighbours rose up to comfort me: and I remained quiet unto the second day at night.

3And it came to pass, when they had all left off to comfort me, to the end I might be quiet, then rose I up by night, and fled, and came hither into this field, as thou seest.

4And I do now purpose not to return into the city, but here to stay, and neither to eat nor drink, but continually to mourn and to fast until I die.

5 It is right now to mourn very sore, seeing we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, seeing we are all in sorrow, but thou sorrowest for one son.

9she, that hath lost so great a multitude, or thou, which art grieved but for one?

12But if thou sayest unto me, My lamentation is not like the earth's, for I have lost the fruit of my womb, of her, and mused what this might be;

26And, behold, suddenly she made a great cry very fearful; so that the earth shook at the noise.

27And I looked, and, behold, the woman appeared unto me no more, but Sion, whom thou thousand years in the world wherein there was no offering as yet offered in her.

46And it came to pass after three thousand years that Solomon builded the city, and these were the things to be opened unto thee.

50For now the Most High, seeing that thou art grieved unfeignedly, and sufferest from thy whole heart for her, hath shewed thee Cp. Is. 54.11.the brightness of her glory, and the comeliness of her beauty:

51And therefore Cp. ver. 32 & ch. 9.24.I bade thee remain in the field where no house was builded:

52For I knew that the Most High would shew this unto thee.

53Therefore Cp. ver. 32 & ch. 9.24.I commanded thee to come into the field, where no foundation of any building was.

54For in the place wherein the city of the Most High was to be shewed, the work of no man's building could stand.

55Therefore fear thou not, nor let thine heart be affrighted, but go thy way in, and Cp. Ps. 48.12,13.see the beauty and greatness of the building, as much as thine eyes be able to see:

56And then shalt thou hear as much as thine ears may comprehend.

57Cp. ch. 12.7.For thou art blessed above many, and with the Most High art called by name, like as but few.

58But to-morrow at night thou shalt remain here;

59And See ch. 7.[44].so shall the Most High shew thee those visions in dreams, of what the Most High will do unto them that dwell upon earth in the last days. So I slept that night and another, like as he commanded me.