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2 Esdras 15:18-35

  1. For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.

  2. A man shall have no pity upon his neighbour, but shall destroy their houses with the sword, and spoil their goods, because of the lack of bread, and for great tribulation.

  3. Behold, saith God, I will call together all the kings of the earth to reverence me, which are from the rising of the sun, from the south, from the east, and Libanus; to turn themselves one against another, and repay the things that they have done to them.

  4. Like as they do yet this day unto my chosen, so will I do also, and recompense in their bosom. Thus saith the Lord God;

  5. My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.

  6. The fire is gone forth from his wrath, and hath consumed the foundations of the earth, and the sinners, like the straw that is kindled.

  7. Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.

  8. I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.

  9. For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.

  10. For now are the plagues come upon the whole earth and ye shall remain in them: for God shall not deliver you, because ye have sinned against him.

  11. Behold an horrible vision, and the appearance thereof from the east:

  12. Where the nations of the dragons of Arabia shall come out with many chariots, and the multitude of them shall be carried as the wind upon earth, that all they which hear them may fear and tremble.

  13. Also the Carmanians raging in wrath shall go forth as the wild boars of the wood, and with great power shall they come, and join battle with them, and shall waste a portion of the land of the Assyrians.

  14. And then shall the dragons have the upper hand, remembering their nature; and if they shall turn themselves, conspiring together in great power to persecute them,

  15. Then these shall be troubled bled, and keep silence through their power, and shall flee.

  16. And 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.

  17. Behold clouds from the east and from the north unto the south, and they are very horrible to look upon, full of wrath and storm.

  18. They shall smite one upon another, and they shall smite down a great multitude of stars upon the earth, even their own star; and blood shall be from the sword unto the belly,