2 Esdras 10:32-47

1. 32 And I said, Because thou hast forsaken me, and yet I did according to thy words, and I went into the field, and, lo, I have seen, and yet see, that I am not able to express.

2. 33 And he said unto me, Stand up manfully, and I will advise thee.

3. 34 Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.

4. 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.

5. 36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?

6. 37 Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt shew thy servant of this vision.

7. 38 He answered me then, and said, Hear me, and I shall inform thee, and tell thee wherefore thou art afraid: for the Highest will reveal many secret things unto thee.

8. 39 He hath seen that thy way is right: for that thou sorrowest continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.

9. 40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest:

10. 41 Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her:

11. 42 But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city builded.

12. 43 And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the solution:

13. 44 This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,

14. 45 Whereas, I say, she said unto thee, that she hath been thirty years barren: those are the thirty years wherein there was no offering made in her.

15. 46 But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son.

16. 47 And whereas she told thee that she nourished him with labour: that was the dwelling in Jerusalem.

• ‹ 2 Esdras 10:31
• 2 Esdras 10:48 ›