God's Wrath Upon Babylon and Other Nations

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Redirecting-Proverbs 31 School of Wisdom
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2 Esdras 16

A Call to Repentance

• 1Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia! woe be unto thee, Egypt and Syria!

• 2Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.

The Inevitability of God's Judgment

• 3A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?

• 4A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?

• 5Plagues are sent unto you, and what is he that may drive them away?

• 6May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? or may any one quench the fire in stubble, when it hath begun to burn?

• 7May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?

The Power of God's Wrath

• 8The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues and who is he that can drive them away?

• 9A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?

• 10He shall cast lightnings, and who shall not fear? he shall thunder, and who shall not be afraid?

• 11The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder at his presence?

The Majesty of God's Power

• 12The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of his power:

• 13For strong is his right hand that bendeth the bow, his

arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.

14Behold, the plagues are sent, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.

15The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundation of the earth.

16Like as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returneth not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall not return again.

17Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?

18The beginning of sorrowes, and great mournings, the beginning of famine, and great death: the beginning of warres, and the powers shall stand in feare, the beginning of euils, what shall I doe when these euils shal come?

19Behold, famine, and plague, tribulation and anguish, are sent as scourges for amendment.

20But for all these things they shall not turne from their wickednes, nor be alway mindfull of the scourges.

21Behold, victuals shall be so good cheape vpon earth, that they shal think themselues to be in good case, and euen then shall euils growe vpon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.

22For many of them that dwell vpon earth, shall perish of famine, and the other that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.

23And the dead shall be cast out as doung, and there shalbe no man to comfort them, for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast downe.

24There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it.

25The trees shall giue fruite, and who shall gather them?

26The grapes shall ripe, and who shall treade them? for all places shall be desolate of men.

27So that one man shall desire to see another, and to heare his voyce.

28For of a citie there shalbe ten left, and two of the field which shall hide themselues in the thicke groues, and in the clefts of rockes.

29As in an orchard of oliues, vpon euery tree there are left three or foure oliues:

30Or, when as a vineyard is gathered, there are left some clusters of them that diligently seek through þe vineyard:

31Euen so in those dayes there shalbe three or foure left by them that search their houses with the sword.

32And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields therof shal waxe old, and her wayes and all her paths shall grow full of thornes, because no man shal trauaile therethrough.

33The virgins shall mourne hauing no bridegromes, þe women shal mourne hauing no husbands, their daughters shall mourne hauing no helpers.

34In the warres shall their bridegromes bee destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.

35Heare now these things, and vnderstand them, ye seruants of the Lord.

36Behold the word of the Lord, receiue it, beleeue not the gods of whom the Lord spake.

37Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slacke.

38As when a woman with childe in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, within two or three houres of her birth great paines compasse her wombe, which paines, when the child commeth forth, they slacke not a moment,

39Euen so shall not the plagues bee slacke to come vpon the earth, and the world shall mourne, and sorrowes shal come vpon it on euery side.

40O my people, Heare my word: make you ready to the battell, and in those euils, be euen as pilgrimes vpon the earth.

41He that selleth let him be as hee that fleeth away: and he that buyeth, as one that will loose.

42He that occupieth merchandize, as he that had no profit by it: and he that buildeth, as hee that shall not dwell therein.

43He that soweth, as if he should not reape: so also he that planteth the vineyard, as he that shal not gather the grapes.

44They that marry, as they that shall get no children: and they that marrie not, as the widowers.

45And therefore they that labour, labour in vaine.

46For strangers shall reape their fruits, and spoile their goods, ouerthrowe their houses; and take their children captiues, for in captiuity and famine shall they get children.

47And they that occupy their merchandize with robbery, the more they decke their citties, their houses, their possessions and their owne persons:

48The more will I be angry with them for their sinne, saith the Lord.

49Like as an whore enuieth a right honest and vertuous woman:

50So shall righteousnesse haue iniquity, when she decketh herselfe, and shall accuse her, to her face, when he commeth that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out euery sinne vpon earth.

51And therfore be yee not like therunto, nor to the workes thereof.

52For yet a little iniquitie shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousnesse shall reigne among you.

53Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God shall burne coales of fire vpon his head, which saith before the Lord God and his glory, I haue not sinned.

54Behold, the Lord knoweth all the workes of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:

55Which spake but the word, let the earth be made, and it was made: let the heauen be made, and it was created.

56In his word were the starres made, and he knoweth the number of them.

57He searcheth the deepe, and the treasures thereof, he hath measured the Sea, and what it containeth.

58He hath shut the Sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word hath he hanged the earth vpon the waters.

59He spreadeth out the heauens like a vault, vpon the waters hath he founded it.

60In the desart hath hee made springs of water, and pooles vpon the tops of the mountaines, that the floods might powre downe from the high rockes to water the earth.

61He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gaue him breath, life, and vnderstanding.

62Yea and the spirit of Almighty God, which made all things, and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth.

63Surely he knoweth your inuentions, and what you thinke in your hearts, euen them that sinne, and would hide their sinne.

64Therefore hath the Lord exactly searched out all your workes, and he will put you all to shame.

65And when your sinnes are brought foorth yee shalbe ashamed before men, and your owne sinnes shall be your accusers in that day.

66What will yee doe? or how will yee hide your sinnes before God and his Angels?

67Behold, God himselfe is the iudge, feare him: leaue off from your sinnes, and forget your iniquities to medle no more with them for euer, so shall God lead you forth, and deliuer you from all trouble.

68For behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled ouer you, and they shall take away certaine of you, and feede you being idle with things offered vnto idoles.

69And they that consent vnto them shall be had in derision, and in reproch, and troden vnder foote.

70For there shall be in euery place, and in the next cities a great insurrection vpon those that feare the Lord.

71They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoiling and destroying those that feare the Lord.

72For they shal waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.

73Then shall they be knowen who are my chosen, and they shall be tried, as the gold in the fire:

74Heare, O yee my beloued, saith the Lord: behold, the dayes of trouble are at hand, but I will deliuer you from the same.

75Be yee not afraid, neither doubt, for God is your guide,

76And the guide of them who keepe my commaundements, and precepts, saith the Lord God; Let not your sinnes weigh you downe, and let not your iniquities lift vp themselues.

77Woe bee vnto them that are bound with their sinnes, and couered with their iniquities: like as a field is couered ouer with bushes, and the path thereof couered with thornes, that no man may trauell through.

78It is left vndressed, and is cast into the fire, to bee consumed therewith.

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