2 Esdr 15:11 But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.

2 Esdr 15:12 Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that G.o.d shall bring upon it.

2 Esdr 15:13 They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.

2 Esdr 15:14 Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!

2 Esdr 15:15 For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.

2 Esdr 15:16 For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.

2 Esdr 15:17 A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.

2 Esdr 15:18 For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.

2 Esdr 15:19 A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.

2 Esdr 15:20 Behold, saith G.o.d, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Liba.n.u.s; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.

2 Esdr 15:21 Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord G.o.d;

2 Esdr 15:22 My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.

2 Esdr 15:23 The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.

2 Esdr 15:24 Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 15:25 I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.

2 Esdr 15:26 For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.

2 Esdr 15:27 For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for G.o.d shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.

2 Esdr 15:28 Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:

2 Esdr 15:29 Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and the mult.i.tude of them shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they which hear them may fear and tremble.

2 Esdr 15:30 Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the a.s.syrians.

2 Esdr 15:31 And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,

2 Esdr 15:32 Then these shall be troubled bled, and keep silence through their power, and shall flee.

2 Esdr 15:33 And from the land of the a.s.syrians shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and dread, and strife among their kings.

2 Esdr 15:34 Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.

2 Esdr 15:35 They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down a great mult.i.tude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,

2 Esdr 15:36 And dung of men unto the camel's hough.

2 Esdr 15:37 And there shall be great fearfulness and trembling upon earth: and they that see the wrath shall be afraid, and trembling shall come upon them.

2 Esdr 15:38 And then shall there come great storms from the south, and from the north, and another part from the west.

2 Esdr 15:39 And strong winds shall arise from the east, and shall open it; and the cloud which he raised up in wrath, and the star stirred to cause fear toward the east and west wind, shall be destroyed.

2 Esdr 15:40 The great and mighty clouds shall be puffed up full of wrath, and the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, and them that dwell therein; and they shall pour out over every high and eminent place an horrible star,

2 Esdr 15:41 Fire, and hail, and flying swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers, with the abundance of great waters.

2 Esdr 15:42 And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and gra.s.s of the meadows, and their corn.

2 Esdr 15:43 And they shall go stedfastly unto Babylon, and make her afraid.

2 Esdr 15:44 They shall come to her, and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that be about her shall bewail her.

2 Esdr 15:45 And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear.

2 Esdr 15:46 And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:

2 Esdr 15:47 Woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her; and hast decked thy daughters in wh.o.r.edom, that they might please and glory in thy lovers, which have always desired to commit wh.o.r.edom with thee.

2 Esdr 15:48 Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions: therefore saith G.o.d,

2 Esdr 15:49 I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.

2 Esdr 15:50 And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower, the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.

2 Esdr 15:51 Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee.

2 Esdr 15:52 Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,

2 Esdr 15:53 If thou hadst not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and saying over their dead, when thou wast drunken,

2 Esdr 15:54 Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?

2 Esdr 15:55 The reward of thy wh.o.r.edom shall be in thy bosom, therefore shalt thou receive recompence.

2 Esdr 15:56 Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall G.o.d do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief

2 Esdr 15:57 Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.

2 Esdr 15:58 They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.

2 Esdr 15:59 Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea, and receive plagues again.

2 Esdr 15:60 And in the pa.s.sage they shall rush on the idle city, and shall destroy some portion of thy land, and consume part of thy glory, and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed.