2 Esdras 14
3 How God appeared to Moses in the bush. 10 All things decline to age. 15 The latter times worse than the former. 29 The ingratitude of Israel. 35 The resurrection and judgment.
UPON the third day I sat under an oak, and behold, there came forth a voice unto me out of the bush, and said, Esdras, Esdras?
And I said, Here am I, Lord, and stood upon my feet.
Then said he unto me, In the bush I revealed myself, and spake unto Moses, when my people served in Egypt:
And I sent him, and led my people out of Egypt, and brought him upon the mount Sinai, and I held him with me a long season,
And I told him many wonders, and showed him the secrets of the times and the end, and commanded him, saying,
These words shalt thou declare, and these shalt thou hide.
And now I say unto thee, that thou lay up in thine heart the signs that I have showed, and the dreams that thou hast seen, and the interpretations which thou hast heard.
For thou shalt be taken away from all, and thou shalt remain hence forth with my counsel, and with such as be like thee, until the times be ended.
For the world hath lost his youth, and the times began to wax old.
For the world is divided into twelve parts, and ten parts of it are gone already and half of the tenth part.
And there remains that which is after the half of the tenth part.
Therefore set thine house in order, and reform thy people, and comfort such of them as be in trouble, and now renounce the corruption.
Let go from thee mortal thoughts: cast away from thee the burdens of men, and put off now the weak nature,
And I set aside thy most grievous thoughts, and hasten thee to depart from these times.
For greater evils than those, which thou hast seen now, shall they commit.
For the weaker that the world is by reason of age, the more shall the evils be increased upon them that dwell therein.
For the truth is fled far away, and lies are at hand: for now hasten the vision to come, that thou hast seen.
Then answered I, and said before thee,
Behold, o Lord, I will go as thou hast commanded me, and reform the people, which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish it?
Thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein, are without light.
For thy Law is burnt, therefore no man know the things that are done of thee, or the works that shall be done.
But if I have found grace before thee, send the Holy Ghost into me, and I will write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, which was written in thy Law, that men may find the path, and that they which will live in the latter days, may live.
And he answered me, saying, Go, and gather the people, and say unto them, that they seek thee not for forty days,
But prepare thee many box tables, and take with thee these five, Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ecanus, and Asiel, which are ready to write swiftly,
And come hither, and I will light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out til the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write.
And then shalt thou declare some things openly unto the perfect men, and some things shalt thou show secretly unto the wise: tomorrow this hour shalt thou begin to write.
Then went I forth, as he commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,
Hear these words, o Israel,
Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from whence they were delivered,
And received the Law of life, which they kept not, which ye also have transgressed after them.
Then was the land, even the land of Sion parted among you by lot: but your fathers and ye also have done unrighteously, and have not kept the ways, which the most High commanded you.
And for so much as he is a righteous Judge, he took from you in time the thing that he had given you.
And now are you here, and your brethren among you.
Therefore if so be that ye will subdue your own understanding, and reform your heart, you shall be kept alive, and after death shall obtain mercy.
For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest, and the works of the ungodly shall be declared.
Let no man therefore come now unto me, nor seek me these forty days.
So I took the five men, as he commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.
The next day behold, a voice called me, saying, Esdras, open thy mouth, and drink that I give thee to drink.
Then opened I my mouth, and behold, he reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water: but the color of it was like fire.
And I took it and drank, and when I had drunken it, mine heart had understanding and wisdom grew in my breast: for my spirit was strengthened in memory.
And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.
The most High gave understanding unto the five men, and they wrote the high things of the night, which they understood not.
But in the night they did eat bread, but I spake by day, and held not my tongue by night.
In forty days, they wrote two hundred and four books.
And when the forty days were fulfilled, the most High spoke, saying, The first that thou hast written, publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read it.
But keep the seventy last, that thou mayest give them to the wise among people.
For in them is the vein of understanding, and the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge: and I did so.
2 Esdras 15
1 The prophecy of Esdras is certain. 5 The evils that shall come on the world. 9 The Lord will avenge the innocent blood. 12 Egypt shall lament. 16 Sedition. 20 And punishment upon the Kings of the earth. 24 Cursed are they that sin. 29 Troubles and wars upon the whole earth. 53 God is the revenger of his elect.
BEHOLD, speak thou in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in thy mouth, saith the Lord:
And cause them to be written in a letter: for they are faithful and true.
Fear not the imaginations against thee: let not the unfaithfulness of the speakers trouble thee, that speak against thee.
For every unfaithful shall die in his unfaithfulness.
Behold, saith the Lord, I will bring plagues upon all the world, the sword, famine, death and destruction:
Because that iniquity hath fully polluted all the earth, and their wicked works are fulfilled.
Therefore, saith the Lord, I will hold my tongue no more for their wicked works are fulfilled.
Behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just cry continually.
I will surely avenge them, saith the Lord, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
Behold, my people is led as a stock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt,
But I will bring them out with a mighty hand, and a stretched out arm, and smite it with plagues as afore, and will destroy all the land thereof.
Egypt shall mourn, and the foundations thereof shall be smitten with the plague and punishment, that God shall bring upon it.
The plowmen that till the ground, shall mourn: for their seed shall fail through the blasting and hail, and by an horrible star.
Woe to the world, and to them that dwell therein.
For the sword and their destruction draws near, and one people shall stand up to fight against another with swords in their hands.
For there shall be sedition among men, and one shall invade another: they shall not regard their King, and the princes shall measure their doings by their power.
A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
Because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be afraid, and men shall fear.
A man shall have no pity upon his neighbor, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and their goods shall be spoiled for lack of bread, and because of great trouble.
Behold, saith God, I call together all the Kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the East, and from the South, from the East, and from the South, from the East, and from Libanus, to turn upon them, and to repay the things, that they have done to them.
As they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense them in their bosom: thus saith the Lord God,
My right hand shall not spare the sinners, neither shall the sword cease from them, that shed innocent blood upon earth.
The fire is gone out from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners like the straw, that is kindled.
Woe to them that sin, and kept not my commandments, saith the Lord.
I will not spare them: depart, o children, from the power: defile not my Sanctuary.
For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivers he them unto death and destruction.
For now are the plagues come upon the world, and ye shall remain in them: for God will not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.
Behold, an horrible vision cometh from the East,
Where generations of dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of them shall be carried as the wind upon the earth, that all they which hear them, may fear and tremble.
Even the Carminians raging in wrath, shall go forth as the bores of the forest, and shall come with great power, and stand against them in battle, and shall destroy a portion of the land of the Assyrians.
But after this shall the dragons have the upper hand, and remember their nature, and shall turn about, and conspire to consume them with a great power.
Then these shall be troubled, and keep silence by their power, and shall flee.
From the land of the Assyrians shall the enemy besiege them, and consume some of them, and in their host shall be fear and dread, and strife among their Kings.
Behold clouds from the East, and from the North and the South, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.
They shall smite one upon another: and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star, and the blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,
And the dung of man unto the Camels litter.
And there shall be great fearfulness, and trembling upon earth, and they that see the wrath, shall be afraid, and a trembling shall come upon them.
And then there shall come great storms from the South, and from the North, and part from the West.
And from the East shall winds arise and shall open it with the cloud, which he raised up in wrath, and the star, raised to fear the East and West wind, shall be destroyed.
And the great, and mighty clouds shall be lift up, full of wrath, and the star, that they may make all the earth afraid, and them that dwell therein, and that they may power out over every high place, and lifted up, an horrible constellation,
As fire and hay, and flying swords, and many waters, that all fields may be full, and all rivers with the abundance of great waters.
And they shall break down the cities and walls, and mountains, and hills, and the trees of the wood, and the grass of the meadows, and their corn.
And they shall go with a straight course unto Babylon, and make it afraid.
They shall come to her, and besiege her, and shall pour forth the constellation, and all the wrath against her: then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that be about her, shall bewail her.
And they that remain under her, shall do service unto them, they have put her in fear.
And thou Asia, that are partaker of the hope of Babylon, and the glory of her person,
Woe unto thee, o wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her, and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in thy lovers, which have always desired to commit whoredom with thee.
Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works, and in her inventions: therefore saith God,
I will send plagues upon thee, widowhood, poverty, and famine, and the sword, and pestilence, to waste thine houses with destruction and death.
And the glory of thy power shall be dried up, as a flower when the heat rises, that it sent upon thee.
Thou shalt be sick as a poor wife that is plagued and beaten of women, so that the mighty and the lovers shall not be able to receive thee.
Would I thus hate thee, saith the Lord,
If thou had not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and said over their death, when you were drunken,
Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?
The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom: therefore shalt thou receive a reward.
As thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, so will God do unto thee, and will deliver thee unto the plague.
And thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall by the sword, and thy cities shall be broken down, and all thy men shall fall by the sword in the field.
And they that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood of want of bread and thirst of water.
And thou, as unhappy, shalt come through the sea, and receive plagues again.
In the passage they shall cast down the slain city, and shall root out one part of thy land, and consume the portion of thy glory, and shall return to her that was destroyed.
When thou shalt be cast down, thou shalt be to them as stubble, and they shall be to thee as fire.
And they shall destroy thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountains: all thy woods and all thy fruitful trees they burn with fire.
Thy children shall they carry away captive, and shall spoil thy substance, and mar the beauty of thy face.
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