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2 Esdras 10:38-48

  1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  8. 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.

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

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

  11. But whereas she said unto thee, That my son coming into his marriage chamber happened to have a fail, and died: this was the destruction that came to Jerusalem.