Menu Close
Search Close
The King James Version Bible
  1. Home
  2. ›
  3. Apocrypha
  4. ›
  5. 2 Esdras
  6. ›
  7. 2 Esdras 15
  8. ›
  9. 2 Esdras 15:42-58

2 Esdras 15:42-58

  1. And they shall break down the cities and walls, mountains and hills, trees of the wood, and grass of the meadows, and their corn.

  2. And they shall go stedfastly unto Babylon, and make her afraid.

  3. They shall come to her, and besiege her, the star and all wrath shall they pour out upon her: then shall the dust and smoke go up unto the heaven, and all they that be about her shall bewail her.

  4. And they that remain under her shall do service unto them that have put her in fear.

  5. And thou, Asia, that art partaker of the hope of Babylon, and art the glory of her person:

  6. Woe be unto thee, thou wretch, because thou hast made thyself like unto her; and hast decked thy daughters in whoredom, that they might please and glory in thy lovers, which have always desired to commit whoredom with thee.

  7. Thou hast followed her that is hated in all her works and inventions: therefore saith God,

  8. I will send plagues upon thee; widowhood, poverty, famine, sword, and pestilence, to waste thy houses with destruction and death.

  9. And the glory of thy Power shall be dried up as a flower, the heat shall arise that is sent over thee.

  10. Thou shalt be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastised with wounds, so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee.

  11. Would I with jealousy have so proceeded against thee, saith the Lord,

  12. If thou hadst not always slain my chosen, exalting the stroke of thine hands, and saying over their dead, when thou wast drunken,

  13. Set forth the beauty of thy countenance?

  14. The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom, therefore shalt thou receive recompence.

  15. Like as thou hast done unto my chosen, saith the Lord, even so shall God do unto thee, and shall deliver thee into mischief

  16. Thy children shall die of hunger, and thou shalt fall through the sword: thy cities shall be broken down, and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field.

  17. They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger, and eat their own flesh, and drink their own blood, for very hunger of bread, and thirst of water.