2 Esdras 15:6-26
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6 For wickedness hath exceedingly polluted the whole earth, and their hurtful works are fulfilled.
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7 Therefore saith the Lord,
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8 I will hold my tongue no more as touching their wickedness, which they profanely commit, neither will I suffer them in those things, in which they wickedly exercise themselves: behold, the innocent and righteous blood crieth unto me, and the souls of the just complain continually.
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9 And therefore, saith the Lord, I will surely avenge them, and receive unto me all the innocent blood from among them.
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10 Behold, my people is led as a flock to the slaughter: I will not suffer them now to dwell in the land of Egypt:
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11 But I will bring them with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm, and smite Egypt with plagues, as before, and will destroy all the land thereof.
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12 Egypt shall mourn, and the foundation of it shall be smitten with the plague and punishment that God shall bring upon it.
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13 They that till the ground shall mourn: for their seeds shall fail through the blasting and hail, and with a fearful constellation.
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14 Woe to the world and them that dwell therein!
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15 For the sword and their destruction draweth nigh, and one people shall stand up and fight against another, and swords in their hands.
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16 For there shall be sedition among men, and invading one another; they shall not regard their kings nor princes, and the course of their actions shall stand in their power.
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17 A man shall desire to go into a city, and shall not be able.
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18 For because of their pride the cities shall be troubled, the houses shall be destroyed, and men shall be afraid.
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19 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.
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20 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.
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21 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;
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22 My right hand shall not spare the sinners, and my sword shall not cease over them that shed innocent blood upon the earth.
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23 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.
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24 Woe to them that sin, and keep not my commandments! saith the Lord.
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25 I will not spare them: go your way, ye children, from the power, defile not my sanctuary.
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26 For the Lord knoweth all them that sin against him, and therefore delivereth he them unto death and destruction.