14 Then say I to you, ‘Just as you have brought forth with sorrow, even so the earth also has given her fruit, namely, people, ever since the beginning to him who made her.’ (WEB)
2 Esdras 10:14
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2 Esdras 5:47–49
47 I said, “She can’t, but must do it each in their own time.” (WEB) 48 Then said he to me, “Even so, I have given the womb of the earth to those who are sown in it in their own times. (WEB) 49 For just as a young child may not give birth, neither she who has grown old any more, ev… (WEB)
2 Esdras 10:8–10
8 It is right now to mourn deeply, since we all mourn, and to be sorrowful, since we are all in sorrow, but you are mourning for one son. (WEB) 9 Ask the earth, and she will tell you that it is she which ought to mourn for so many that grow upon her. (WEB) 10 For out of her, all… (WEB)
Testament of Issachar 1:40–42
40 For with the first-fruits of the earth will the Lord bless you, even as He blessed all the saints from Abel even until now. (T12) 41 For no other portion is given to you than of the fatness of the earth, whose fruits are raised by toil. (T12) 42 For our father Jacob blessed me w… (T12)
Job 8:18–20
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Epistle to Diognetus 12:7–9
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2 Esdras 16:24–26
24 There will be no farmer left to cultivate the earth or to sow it. (WEB) 25 The trees will give fruit, but who will gather it? (WEB) 26 The grapes will ripen, but who will tread them? For in all places there will be a great solitude; (WEB)
2 Baruch 73:6–7
6 And wild beasts shall come from the forest and minister unto men, And asps and dragons shall come forth from their holes to submit themselves to a little child. (2BA) 7 And women shall no longer then have pain when they bear, Nor shall they suffer torment when they yi… (2BA)
2 Esdras 4:29–31
29 If therefore that which is sown isn’t reaped, and if the place where the evil is sown doesn’t pass away, the field where the good is sown won’t come. (WEB) 30 For a grain of evil seed was sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much wickedness it has prod… (WEB)
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