2 Esdras 10:33-46

1. 33 And he said unto me, Stand up manfully, and I will advise thee.

2. 34 Then said I, Speak on, my lord, in me; only forsake me not, lest I die frustrate of my hope.

3. 35 For I have seen that I knew not, and hear that I do not know.

4. 36 Or is my sense deceived, or my soul in a dream?

5. 37 Now therefore I beseech thee that thou wilt shew thy servant of this vision.

6. 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.

7. 39 He hath seen that thy way is right: for that thou sorrowest continually for thy people, and makest great lamentation for Sion.

8. 40 This therefore is the meaning of the vision which thou lately sawest:

9. 41 Thou sawest a woman mourning, and thou begannest to comfort her:

10. 42 But now seest thou the likeness of the woman no more, but there appeared unto thee a city builded.

11. 43 And whereas she told thee of the death of her son, this is the solution:

12. 44 This woman, whom thou sawest is Sion: and whereas she said unto thee, even she whom thou seest as a city builded,

13. 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.

14. 46 But after thirty years Solomon builded the city and offered offerings: and then bare the barren a son.

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