2 Esdr 16:48 The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the Lord.

2 Esdr 16:49 Like as a wh.o.r.e envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:

2 Esdr 16:50 So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.

2 Esdr 16:51 And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof.

2 Esdr 16:52 For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.

2 Esdr 16:53 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for G.o.d shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord G.o.d and his glory, I have not sinned.

2 Esdr 16:54 Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:

2 Esdr 16:55 Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created.

2 Esdr 16:56 In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of them.

2 Esdr 16:57 He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath measured the sea, and what it containeth.

2 Esdr 16:58 He hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters.

2 Esdr 16:59 He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters hath he founded it.

2 Esdr 16:60 In the desert hath he made springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, that the floods might pour down from the high rocks to water the earth.

2 Esdr 16:61 He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding.

2 Esdr 16:62 Yea and the Spirit of Almighty G.o.d, which made all things, and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth,

2 Esdr 16:63 Surely he knoweth your inventions, and what ye think in your hearts, even them that sin, and would hide their sin.

2 Esdr 16:64 Therefore hath the Lord exactly searched out all your works, and he will put you all to shame.

2 Esdr 16:65 And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed before men, and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day.

2 Esdr 16:66 What will ye do? or how will ye hide your sins before G.o.d and his angels?

2 Esdr 16:67 Behold, G.o.d himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for ever: so shall G.o.d lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.

2 Esdr 16:68 For, behold, the burning wrath of a great mult.i.tude is kindled over you, and they shall take away certain of you, and feed you, being idle, with things offered unto idols.

2 Esdr 16:69 And they that consent unto them shall be had in derision and in reproach, and trodden under foot.

2 Esdr 16:70 For there shall be in every place, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.

2 Esdr 16:71 They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoiling and destroying those that fear the Lord.

2 Esdr 16:72 For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.

2 Esdr 16:73 Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire.

2 Esdr 16:74 Hear, O ye my beloved, saith the Lord: behold, the days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same.

2 Esdr 16:75 Be ye not afraid neither doubt; for G.o.d is your guide,

2 Esdr 16:76 And the guide of them who keep my commandments and precepts, saith the Lord G.o.d: let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your iniquities lift up themselves.

2 Esdr 16:77 Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!

2 Esdr 16:78 It is left undressed, and is cast into the fire to be consumed therewith.

The Greek Additions to Esther [The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther]

AddEsth 10:4 Then Mardocheus said, G.o.d hath done these things.

AddEsth 10:5 For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.

AddEsth 10:6 A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:

AddEsth 10:7 And the two dragons are I and Aman.

AddEsth 10:8 And the nations were those that were a.s.sembled to destroy the name of the Jews:

AddEsth 10:9 And my nation is this Israel, which cried to G.o.d, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and G.o.d hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.

AddEsth 10:10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of G.o.d, and another for all the Gentiles.

AddEsth 10:11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before G.o.d among all nations.

AddEsth 10:12 So G.o.d remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.

AddEsth 10:13 Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an a.s.sembly, and joy, and with gladness before G.o.d, according to the generations for ever among his people.

AddEsth 11:1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.

AddEsth 11:2 In the second year of the reign of Artexerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan, Mardocheus the son of Jairus, the son of Semei, the son of Cisai, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream;

AddEsth 11:3 Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a servitor in the king's court.

AddEsth 11:4 He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea; and this was his dream:

AddEsth 11:5 Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land:

AddEsth 11:6 And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.