2 Esdras 16:45-62
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45 And therefore they that labour labour in vain:
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46 For strangers shall reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captives, for in captivity and famine shall they get children.
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47 And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons:
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48 The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the Lord.
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49 Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:
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50 So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.
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51 And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof.
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52 For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.
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53 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord God and his glory, I have not sinned.
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54 Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:
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55 Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created.
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56 In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of them.
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57 He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath measured the sea, and what it containeth.
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58 He hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters.
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59 He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters hath he founded it.
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60 In the desert hath he made springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, that the floods might pour down from the high rocks to water the earth.
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61 He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding.
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62 Yea and the Spirit of Almighty God, which made all things, and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth,