The King James Version Bible

2 Esdras 10:35-45

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

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

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

  4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  11. 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.