2 Esdras 15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1Behold, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,

32Then these shall be troubled, and keep silence through their power, and shall turn and flee.

33And from the land of the Assyrians shall the lier in wait besiege them, and consume one of them, and upon their host shall be fear and trembling, and storm upon the earth, dead, idle city, and shall destroy some portion of thy land, and mar part of thy glory, and shall return again to Babylon ver. 43.that was destroyed.

61And thou shalt be cast down by them Is. 47.14. Cp. ch. 16.6.as stubble, and they shall be unto thee as fire;

62And shall devour thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.

63They shall carry thy children away captive, and shall spoil thy wealth, and mar the glory of thy face.